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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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Taiwan network PoP

DR scenario with lower leased line cost, connecting with local MPLS loop to expand the site resources to cloud. VMware Hybrid scenario for dedicated line resources. Enterprise access with internal system in cloud in Hong Kong
about 6 years ago in Direct Link 0 Delivered

Live migration of virtual servers

Host hardware failure on hosts are quite common and every time this happens, we shut down customers' virtual servers to do migration. This is very disruptive to customer's business. Another pain point is that in instances when we need to do mainte...
about 6 years ago in Virtual Servers 1 Delivered

Authentication to access CDN

We have inquired few times from customers about authentication user ID or global IP address to access CDN. SoftLayer and AWS also are not currently support of white list based CDN accessing. Have you ever seen such a inquiry?
about 6 years ago in  2 Delivered

Support much bigger partition sizes

Partition sizes of 1GB on multi tenant and 10GB on dedicated are much too small for many big data and IoT use cases. Please support much bigger partitions. The partition sizes allow you to estimate how long consumers can be offline (e.g. maintena...
about 6 years ago in  1 Delivered

bx cli improvement

"bx cf spaces" does not have an option to turn off headers in the output, nor output to json, as other bx cli commands do. Currently I have to script the output to remove superfluous information, if I could just ouput json then it would make life ...
about 6 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered

Self-signed certificate for Java Adapter using Mobile Foundation Service on Bluemix

Need ability to add "self-signed certificate" OR "Self-signed certificate with signing authority" for Java Adapter using Mobile Foundation Service on Bluemix. We have deployed a Java adapter via Bluemix successfully. When trying to communicate bet...
about 6 years ago in Secrets Manager 3 Delivered

Cloud monitoring for kubernetes resource groups

We have a kubernetes cluster where we create individual deployments for each customer. Each deployment is set up with autoscaling. The current cloud monitoring with Grafana 4 allows us to monitor metrics such as cpu and memory utilization based on...
about 6 years ago in  2 Delivered

Metadata tags for COS Public BUCKETS (SoftLayer and BMX Platform)

Currently, bucket tagging is operational for on-premise Cleversafe/COS deployment non-container mode. I'd like to submit a feature request for this same operation on the COS public environment. In addition, it would be nice to be able to search th...
about 6 years ago in  1 Delivered

Add "change management" privilege to the Admin Console

LBG is requiring to have a specific "change management" privilege to limit access to "Maintenance Updates" pages only in their Administrative Console. Currently "Super user" privileges are needed with a full control in the entire Administrative fu...
over 6 years ago in Administration 3 Delivered

Watson IoT REST endpoint for checking device connectivity

It would be very nice instead of having 'iot-2/type/device_type/id/device_id/mon' topic to have REST API endpoint, so we would be able to check device connectivity status. For our case we are building listening on mentioned MQTT topic is not very ...
over 6 years ago in  0 Delivered