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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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Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
16 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format

Currently IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) providing an option to download in JSON log format. Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format. Let users decide and select which fo...
3 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Integrate Payment Portal with IBM Login Portal

At present, IBM users are forced to log into an entirely separate payment portal when attempting to remit payment for an invoice: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/invoices/welcome That disconnect doesn't make much sense from a developer's (or ...
4 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) should be able to have multiple instances open at the same time

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) offers a completely broken experience when more than one instance is opened at the same time in the same browser session. This is unworkable for users who have separate monitoring instances per environment. IBM Cloud ...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

CodeEngine to work with Signed images

Today, CodeEngine works with "un-signed" images. It would be very helpful if Code Engine could understand signed images and be able to work with it by verifying. For now, we can consider "skopeo" as a signing utility. Users could provide the publi...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 2 Under review

CRUD operations on the IAM setting Restrict User Domains should be available via API/CLI

We automate provisioning of all IBM Cloud accounts. IAM settings for "Restrict API Key Creation" and "Restrict Service ID Creation" are available with API, CLI and terraform. But, "Restrict User Domains" https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/settings can only...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Integrated solution for viewing and analyzing VPC Flow Logs

VPC Flow Logs have been available for years, but the data just goes to Object Storage and is difficult to search and analyze or set up alerts. Previously, there was some integration with Data Engine, but that is no longer available. IBM folks have...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Planned for future release

Create a curl-based script to port IBM Cloud CLI to IBM i and AIX

We want to automate some IBM i and AIX tasks, specially for DR purposes: * GRS operation: Verify, run actions ...* Export an LPAR using scripts , for backup purposes* Take a Snapshot* Get the web-console URL* Retrieve status and values from within...
12 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Under review

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration