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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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Raise notifications only when they are related to Resources/Serevices subscribed.

Raise notifications only when they are related to Resources/Serevices subscribed. Currently a lot of maintenance notifications could be related, this confuses users, also leads users to ignore notifications.
almost 5 years ago in  1 Delivered

DevOps Pipeline triggered by Pull Requests

Right now only commits can be used to trigger a pipeline. However, in many cases it is useful to trigger a pipeline based on a pull request. Using this you can run some tests on the code in the pull request (coding standard, basic build test, etc)...
almost 8 years ago in  3 Delivered

Enable creation of other users than just admins in Messagehub

Problem: you want to expose a data stream to a 3rd party. Solution option: Use Kafka and give 3rd party API key to Kafka. Problem: now 3rd party has admin access to your kafka instance and can do whatever they like with your kafka instance.
about 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Allow setting of autoscaling policy in an automated fashion

At the moment, whilst it is possible to create an AutoScaling service via the command line tools, you cannot configure auto-scaling policies without having to log into the dashboard. This greatly restricts the options when trying to deploy an app...
over 8 years ago in  1 Delivered

Filter query for resources within a Satellite location

This is critical for the Satellite service to ensure that all downstream services in a Satellite Location are removed before allowing the location to be removed (related to the Stratos effort with Power Virtual Workspace and Storage as a Service) ...
about 1 year ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Access to resources via Local IP on “Code Engine"

"Code Engine" will need access to data souce.(like database) Serverless application can’t control their global IPs. Many developers may need to secure access to their data souce. But now it can’t. I hope “Code Engine” access to data souce in IBM C...
about 4 years ago in  2 Delivered

Allow consumer lag metric in IBM managed Sysdig from IBM Enterprise Event Streams

When using Enterprise Event Streams we are able to visualize metrics through managed sysdig. In looking through Sysdig documentation there is no way to check Kafka consumer lag through metrics. This is an important metric as it can verify consumer...
about 3 years ago in  0 Delivered

Manage and view individual SSL client certificates

Using mutual authentication in Bluemix requires the loading of client certs or trust stores. This is possible via the Bluemix console, but there is no way to list or view current client certs, and there is no way to upload an additional or revoke ...
over 7 years ago in  4 Delivered

Ability to create Organization in the console

Today, I need to install the BX CLI and run the command bx iam org-create "new org" to create new org. As a Bluemix Account Owner, I need to be able to create new Organization within the Administration page of the console.
almost 8 years ago in Administration 2 Delivered

Ability for PowerVS LPAR (VM) to access storage from different affinity (not tier!)

For availbility it would be an advantage if a VM could access Storage from different affinity groups (controllers). This would allow the administrator to move data from one affinity group to another or to have a VM which mirrors data across storag...
over 3 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered