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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.

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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".

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Universal Optical cable for device connectivity

As more content is moving to cloud, the world needs - now is an optical (fiber) based durable cable that connects and powers devices.At first corp servers will use it and now a scaled down version for household devices - either it could follow or ...
about 7 years ago in Network 0 Not under consideration

A user is able to set the preference the Bluemix region org space when login the Console

The user can work straight away in the user's preferred Bluemix environment. Some users are experiencing to be always redirected to Sydney Region even though the users use US region then log out. See the Internal Support Ticket 684493
about 7 years ago in  3 Not under consideration

dotnet:3.1 runtime for Cloud Functions

Right now, the only dotnet runtime in IBM Cloud Functions is dotnet:2.2, and .NET Core 2.2 is past its EOL. It'd be nice to have the most recent .NET runtime (3.1, which won't be EOL until more than a year from now) added so we can use it.
over 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Detailed messages when storage runs out of ports

I had a recent issue when the Tier 3 port definitions reached their maximum number, so every deployment just went to error state - no messages and no status updates on the state of the Data Centre. Suggest better error capture and alerting around ...
over 3 years ago in  1 Planned for future release

Change network configuration of the VSI without re-provisioning

In the VSI, it's currently not possible to add or remove network adapters without re-provisioning the VSI. Simple elements such as adding network interface to a new VLAN or changing a network adapter configuration.
over 3 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

Failed Login Attempts are not their in LogDNA even if we target specific account from CLI

Myself i tried to login into my account using CLI and see the logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker (eu-de region) I ran command "ibmcloud login -c <account-no> --apikey <wrong-api-key>" As i am targeting specific ibm account, ideally it ...
almost 4 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Security questions' answers are shown as plain text

When we login into IBM Cloud, there is Security questions (If Configured) for 2FA. In the security questions, if we type the answer it is not hidden as secret instead it reflect as plain text.
almost 4 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu20 support for classic infrastructure

Recently we got email about EOL for Ubuntu16. So the only option will be Ubuntu18 soon. We need to resetup plenty of servers, so it would be great to go with Ubuntu20 at once
almost 4 years ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

Bi-Directional Active Directory (AD) Group Syncing

For BM environments that need to stay in sync, a bi-directional AD for group syncing would ease administration.
over 7 years ago in Administration 2 Not under consideration

Capacity tracking for MessageHub Dedicated service

Currently we're in a very odd situation wrt to dedicated MessageHub. Basically, a customer pays for 100 partitions and then can see how many have been consumed overall. However, they cannot see which spaces have used partitions without laboriously...
over 7 years ago in  0 Not under consideration