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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Integrate Payment Portal with IBM Login Portal

At present, IBM users are forced to log into an entirely separate payment portal when attempting to remit payment for an invoice: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/invoices/welcome That disconnect doesn't make much sense from a developer's (or ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM Cloud Databases Redis to use public certificates instead os self-signed certificates

Today, IBM Cloud Databases Redis instances uses self-signed certificates. After provisioning an instance, customer have a extra step to download certificates and configure them on backend systems to allow communication. This is cumbersome, since o...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) should be able to have multiple instances open at the same time

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) offers a completely broken experience when more than one instance is opened at the same time in the same browser session. This is unworkable for users who have separate monitoring instances per environment. IBM Cloud ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Create a curl-based script to port IBM Cloud CLI to IBM i and AIX

We want to automate some IBM i and AIX tasks, specially for DR purposes: * GRS operation: Verify, run actions ...* Export an LPAR using scripts , for backup purposes* Take a Snapshot* Get the web-console URL* Retrieve status and values from within...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Under review

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Under review

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Trusted Profile list view as alternative to tile view when logging in

We make extensive use of Trusted Profile templates which means the same template may be applied to many accounts in the enterprise. We use Trusted Profile templates for privileged access where we want a careful selection of just a single account -...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Classic infrastructure VLANs - trunk several servers at a time

When trunking a VLAN to servers in classic infra, the servers choice is currently a radio button, which forces to trunk them one by one. It would be nice if it was a checkboxes list instead of radio buttons, alowwing to select several servers in o...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network 0 Not under consideration