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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Make Transit Gateways real-time traffic metrics available to users of IBM Cloud

Nowadays, the Transit Gateways (TGW) which are used to receive Direct Link traffic can measure the traffic but right now there’s no feature in the IBM Cloud platform that allows users to visualize that metric in real-time. Some numbers can be seen...
19 days ago in Direct Link 0 Future consideration

10GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange in Ashburn and Chicago POPs

Customer needs 10GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange in Ashburn and Chicago POPs in order to link their hybrid cloud model with other Cloud Exchange providers such as AWS and Azure. Currently we only offer 1GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange and customer nee...
almost 6 years ago in Direct Link 2 Not under consideration

Provide feature to allow customer to create routing rule for Direct Link 2.0

I have created new Direct Link 2.0 service to setup a interconnection between a IBM Cloud VPC and a IBM Power Subnet. I have found out the routing won't automatically work after I created the connection. I will need to create support ticket, then ...
over 4 years ago in Direct Link 0 Future consideration

Directlink cloud port speed match with Equinix order

The new Directlink cloud order process requires the customer to place an order on Equinix with matching port speed to that on IBM cloud. This however creates a problem where the customer need to place a new Equinix order and redo their end of the ...
almost 7 years ago in Direct Link 1 Not under consideration