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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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Server status in the portal is automatically reflected even when shutdown is executed (not from portal actions menu, but) from OS function.

I would like the status to be displayed correctly (the power-on menu appears) in the "Action.." menu of the portal even when the OS is shut down. Alternatively, I would like to see a display that shows that there is no problem in executing the pow...
6 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

2FA Form Accept Enter Key

Please alter your two factor authentication form on https://cloud.ibm.com/login to accept the ENTER key as a submit for verification. Many other sites (including the form for this site) allow this action to streamline the login process.
9 months ago in Security 1 Delivered

What is your credit card number - is solving the WRONG PROBLEM

With the myriad of shortcomings and issues with ibm cloud billing, requiring a credit number for a new ibm cloud account is forcing serious questions about IBM's tactics and intentions within customer organizations. A customer purchased a $100K su...
over 1 year ago in Billing 1 Delivered

Allow consumer lag metric in IBM managed Sysdig from IBM Enterprise Event Streams

When using Enterprise Event Streams we are able to visualize metrics through managed sysdig. In looking through Sysdig documentation there is no way to check Kafka consumer lag through metrics. This is an important metric as it can verify consumer...
over 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

CIS kubernetes security and compliance profile for the Cloud hosted Kubernetes services.

We have Cloud Hosted Kubernetes Services that we are hosting in IBM Cloud. We were hoping to utilize the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance centre's out of the box profiles to perform CIS benchmarking. However we are having difficulties getting any...
over 1 year ago in Security 0 Delivered

Allow all events to got a single Activity Tracker instance of our choosing

When we automate the creation of new sub-accounts, they currently will require an Activity Tracker in Frankfurt as well as Activity Trackers for other regions where resources may exist. This means we will always need two ATs. We would rather just ...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 8 Delivered

Ability for PowerVS LPAR (VM) to access storage from different affinity (not tier!)

For availbility it would be an advantage if a VM could access Storage from different affinity groups (controllers). This would allow the administrator to move data from one affinity group to another or to have a VM which mirrors data across storag...
almost 2 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Ability to specify and monitor affinity when creating storage volumes on PowerVS

Requesting the ability to specifiy affinity (Controller) when provisioning PowerVS Storage volumes. This would also require that the affinity of existing volumes is displayed in Storage volume properties. This will resolve problem caused by curren...
almost 2 years ago in  0 Delivered

Add secondary step before VSI can be deleted

Add requirement to type VSI name before it can be deleted in the same manner used for Kubernetes clusters.
almost 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Return Resource name instead of Resource id(Security and Compliance Center)

SCC is returning resource id in which is difficult to pull resource details. If you return resource name it will help user to understand which resource has problem
almost 2 years ago in  2 Delivered