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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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Add ISO virtual media support to PowerVS

A virtual ISO media repository could be amazing for install , migrate and restore purposes . Please add this feature to PowerVS
4 months ago in Power 0 Not under consideration

Add a "mkvterm" console option to the IBM Cloud CLI "power-iaas" plugin for AIX

Add and option to IBM CLOUD CLI - Power-IaaS plugin, so we can access the "mkvterm" command on NovaLink/PowerVS and AIX intances. The Web console has no cut&paste feature and the time-out can be annoying with long-running processes (ie: instal...
4 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisioning process to eliminate the occurrence of duplicate IP assignments.

While provisioning RDCP UAT Open Shift cluster, one of the primary IP from a Primary VLAN got auto assigned which caused outage in the PROD environment due to IP conflict. Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisionin...
6 months ago in Subnets / IPs 7 Not under consideration

Provide Internet access on PowerVS without Internet publishing

When we don't add Internet access to our network settings we are not able to download PTFs, fixes, updates or install open source tools, unless we set an instance with this features or jump to VPC landing zone and use a VRA or proxy VM. It would b...
4 months ago in Virtual Servers 2 Needs more information

VMware Solution Day 2 Actions Capabilities

Hi, as a customer of IBM Cloud, we offer VMware Solutions reselling to our customers. Customers who have cost considerations use shared infra services meaning multiple tenants hosted on a single compute cluster. To provide services to multiple cus...
11 months ago in VMware Solutions 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well. I want to configure and monitor my infrastructure from one dashboard only from a single region using cloud native services.
9 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
10 months ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

Synchronous mirroring over 2 locations in one IBM Cloud site for block data as a foundation for availability

Background Currently we running + 100 customers with one or several LPARS each (Power Server with IBMi). We would like to migrate to IBM Cloud. These customers run mainly their ERP system in IBMi. The ERP system acts like a business hub, with a lo...
almost 3 years ago in Block Storage 1 Planned for future release

Please list incidents which can cause customer impact on Notifications in the portal .

When there is back bone issue, now IBM Cloud does not notify it to the customer because they cannot know which customer gets impacted.
about 1 year ago in Network 2 Functionality already exists