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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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get Pods, Namespaces, Nodes... info from the IBM Cloud Kubernetes API

from the IBM Cloud API for Kubernetes the documentation of which is here: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/kubernetes we get info about the Clusters but not about pods, namespace and so on. The idea here is to enhance this IBM Cloud API to provide th...
over 2 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Add multiple tags at once using ibmcloud

So far is possible to add a tag to a single device by using the command: "ibmcloud resource tag-attach --tag-names TAG --resource-name NAME". However, is NOT possible to do it for multiple devices. It should be great if it could work for multiple ...
over 2 years ago in CLI 0 Future 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 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
over 2 years ago in Billing 2 Planned for future release

IBM Delivery Pipeline Logs

IBM Delivery Pipeline logs should be present and stored somewhere to keep a track of activities and errors for future reference
over 2 years ago in  3 Not under consideration

IBMCloud Schematics Codeless IaC

Our company is using Schematics service to create entire environments. We have run into several issues and challenges to using schematics service to stand up customer envs A simple answer we often received was, why don't we just use the terraform ...
almost 3 years ago in  2 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Shell API

IBM Cloud Shell API needs to exist! I want to be able to run commands for my command that are best run through the cli. Imagine if I have an application that can make API calls to cloud shell to run those commands on my account instead of having t...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 3 Future consideration

Permission to disable MFA for parent user

A parent user is assign when a user is created/invited into the portal by customer person with the appropriate permission for IAM in the IBM account. That person with the IAM permission can do anything except disable MFA that the user enable by hi...
almost 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Planned for future release

Master account owner role

I have had multiple interaction with support where the master account owner was required even when I have full right on everything else. Most often it was to disable the MFA on a specific user that it was required to reach out to the master accoun...
almost 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Details behind error condition with LPARs in PowerVS

Example: Attempted to deploy 2 LPARs in PowerVS, one would consistently fail - going into error state, with no other details. Tried a number of times to redeploy the one LPAR with the same result. Atempted the next day and it worked. . I checked w...
almost 3 years ago in Power 51 Not under consideration