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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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Snapshot and Volume sharing between accounts

As a SaaS Provider, I would like to provide my customers with the ability to create snapshots and save the data into another (SaaS) account. For customers, it enables an easy migration between accounts (think M&A or multiple account strategy) ...
5 months ago in Block Storage 1 Delivered

The Current IBM CIS Benchmark Scan has a bug/flaw in few of the Controls

1) Ensure Cloud Object Storage encryption is enabled with BYOK Ensure Cloud Object Storage encryption is enabled with KYOK Ensure Block Storage is encrypted with BYOK Ensure Block Storage is encrypted with KYOK These 4 controls Due to a flaw in...
8 months ago in Storage 0 Delivered

UI Optimization: Need search option for Service-IDs

Dear team, We have 4 large applications running in this cloud account having lot's of infrastructure and a large amount of service-ids defined in the IAM section. Because of there are approx. 300 service-ids it's really hard to find a specific ser...
9 months ago in Identity and Access Management 0 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) ...
11 months ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Information one month before reservations/contracts end

when our reservation of a worker pool ran out of contract IBM just deactivated the nodes in production. It would be much more efficient to get a warning by email one month before, so that neither your support team nor we have to search for the pro...
about 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

Cloud monitoring for PowerVS Infrastructure

Cloud monitoring for powerVS should be enabled by native monitoring services.
about 1 year ago in Power 2 Delivered

accept PO box billing addresses in standard format

When inputing the billing address for my IBM Cloud payment method, if my billing address is a PO box, then the IBM Cloud website should accept that address. Currently, the IBM Cloud website explicitly states that it does not accept PO boxes. This ...
about 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered

Granular usage details including vApp name

We deploy many vApps with unique names from templates causing all the VMs to have the same names regardless of which vApp they are in. For billing, we are unable to compare our usage data from in-house to IBM usage data because the data provided b...
over 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered

Change worker pool flavor - sorting by Memory/Price/Network speed does not sort correctly - it sorts in lexicographical (alphabetical) order instead of numerical order

To quickly find the best instance type for my worker pool I want to be able to sort the columns by Memory / Price / Network speed etc. At the moment the sorting functionality is broken (tested on Chrome and Safari) as it sorts in lexicographical (...
over 1 year ago in Kubernetes Service 0 Delivered

In API is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date”

In Secrets Management API it is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date” … our app needs to check if any secrets gets changed to reload them in our app, otherwise we need to reload every time all of the. We have few hundreds ...
over 1 year ago in Secrets Manager 1 Delivered