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Core Platform Services

API for IBM maintenance or outage events

We are a current IBM cloud customer hosting a webapp using IBM services. We have a monitoring platform that integrates with e-mail, slack, etc. that can send us alerts when our services are experiencing interruptions. As part of IBMs ongoing proce...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services Future consideration

Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services Not under consideration

Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI Not under consideration

Add a 20 questions test at end of a training course, in addition to the quiz at module end as we have now

Users would be much more knowledgeable rather than just memorizing quiz answers. Users would be much more knowledgeable rather than just memorizing quiz answers. How should it work: Just add a 20 question test of the complete course at course end
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning Not under consideration

Power image capture/import/export should support more than one concurrent operation

We build custom images of AIX and Linux (based on IBM stock images) for creating our VMs in our IBM Cloud Power Systems Virtual Servers workspaces. The process of building a new VM, customizing it, capturing that as an image, creating a new VM fro...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

add connection setting to enable connectivity between CPD aaS IKC and Reporting DB on Azure

The customer is working with CPDaaS in EU/FRA. The customer wants to use the DQ reporting service of IKC. For this reason the customer wants to store DQ reporting information within an Azure DB. The customer is not allowedto store reporting inform...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite Under review

Add the ability from the Cloud GUI to move a partition into a Shared Processor Pool

I have an existing partition but I'm not allowed to edit it and add it to a Shared Processor Pool. The only option available in the Cloud GUI is to create a partition in the Shared Processor Pool. How can I move an existing Partition into a Shared...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Future consideration

Implement an approach to define and manage Requirements record Acceptance Criteria for IBM DevOps Plan

An Agile requirement comprises (or SHOULD comprise!) a high-level statement of what the system needs to do, plus one or more related, detailed scenarios that define system Acceptance Criteria for the high-level statement. The AC's provide the requ...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / DevOps Not under consideration

Automation of User and Service Account Removal in Continuous Delivery

I would like to propose a significant operational improvement for IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery: automating the process of removing identities, including both users and service accounts associated with GitLab. Currently, this process is manual and...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management Not under consideration

Automation of User and Service Account Removal in Continuous Delivery

I would like to propose a significant operational improvement for IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery: automating the process of removing identities, including both users and service accounts associated with GitLab. Currently, this process is manual and...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management Under review