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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".

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Ability to Downgrade from Standard to Lite Plan

It would be great to be able to downgrade from the paid standard plans to the lite plan in the event that your project scope changes instead of having to completely delete your account.
about 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
about 3 years ago in Power 2 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud File Storage support for cluster namespace

IBM Cloud File Storage (Classic and VPC) support for cluster namespace to allow for the reduction of vm/host mountpoints. In particular, there is a customer moving thousands of servers to IBM Cloud. This customer has hundreds of servers with clust...
over 2 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

create a Watson personal assistant to help us with everything within bluemix

I love Watson and so do all people, Watson is going to change the way we look at things, but first, people need to get to know Watson. I say, integrate a smart Watson assistant within blue mix, it could answer any question e.g. which file can I us...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

Support for multi-site replication in Compose

Compose Enterprise is lacking critical features to support high availability in Bluemix dedicated environments. Our client has a RPO of 10 minutes where the recommended HA architecture must be active-active on two Bluemix dedicated instances. Curr...
about 8 years ago in Analytics 6 Not under consideration

As an administrator of Bluemix Dedicated, I want to create custom boilerplates in our Catalog

Sometime ago Bluemix Dedicated provided the capability to add Services to the catalog by registering a Service Broker. This has been very helpful. We would like to take it one step further and provide custom boileplates to our development teams.
about 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Associate the apps to the users within an organization

Currently, bluemix allows the apps to be associated to an organization and when a user belonging to the organization logs into bluemix, he can see all the apps created by the users within the organization including his own apps. It would be much ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
almost 2 years ago in Power 1 Not under consideration

I would like to see cloud foundry to support TLS1.3.

The open source CF has clear documentation supporting TLS1.3. But IBM Cloud foundry (public) is not offering TLS 1.3 for apps deployed in CF. TLS 1.3 improves transport security. https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/adminguide/securing-traffic.html#tls_1.3
about 4 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

IBM Delivery Pipeline Logs

IBM Delivery Pipeline logs should be present and stored somewhere to keep a track of activities and errors for future reference
over 3 years ago in  3 Not under consideration