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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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Enable Billing Data to Reseller Account for Distributor Managed Accounts Under CLI as well

I own a Reseller account account and can see my Distributor Managed (Another Company) accounts under my reseller account as https://cloud.ibm.com/billing/accounts through UI. I want to see this through CLI as well. Currently only "account-usage" a...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Planned for future release

Document what settings are only available via the IBM Cloud Console (UI)

In attempting to build automation to create new enterprise accounts, and set them up, it was discovered there's some account settings that are only available in the IBM Cloud Console (ie the Web UI), but not available to be set programmatically (v...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Future consideration

ibmcloud CLI cos plugin: add command to get bucket configuration / metadata

Currently the only way to get the bucket total number of objects and total size as is: In the IBM Cloud Portal web UI go to the bucket configuration Manually calling the API with curl https://config.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com/v1/b/{my-buck...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Future consideration

View Billing Data for the Account/Resource Group or Tags Level on Daily Basis

Hello, I suggest we capture more granualer billing data on daily basis per service level, which we can track at Account/Resource Group or Tags Level. This will help us to more compliant for the cost management.
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Planned for future release

Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 6 Future consideration

Disable Promotion and Credits View to All Users

Hi, All users are able to see Promotions and Credit page by design. IBM should make a permission check, it should be disabled to every single user in the account. All users in the account are not mandatory supposed to view any financial or billing...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 2 Future consideration

Request to improve the behavior of unsubscribing from IBMcloud notification emails

When you click the URL to cancel the notification email of IBMcloud, I want you to display a confirmation screen.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support 0 Future consideration

CIS plan usage

Currently it is not possible to see the usage of the CIS plans. For example, the standard plan has 5 TB of protected traffic, 10 million DNS queries, 10 million HTTP requests and 1 million edge function requests. Where do I see where I stand? Is t...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Functionality already exists

Show ibmcloud cli equivalent command for an order

When ordering something from the WEB-UI show in the UI a summarized of the order as ibmcloud cli command, so that this order can be reproduced or repeated automatically if need. So if I need to order 10 baremetal node, I can "generate" the cli fro...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Planned for future release

More Details needed for Storage upgrade

Hello, When we make a storage increase on a datastore, we receive an invoice with the final amount of storage configured. For example, if we upgrade form 15 TB to 20 TB, we receive a notification with the final storage space : --------------------...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Ordering 0 Not under consideration