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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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Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

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Please add R language runtime in catalog

Adding R language runtime will ease you to capture more users of that language. Thank you.
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Improve search UI for VSIs

Cadence design has a significant number of VSIs and the search tool on the UI does not work beyond 200 VSIs. This is extremely frustrating to to the customer and makes working in the portal difficult and time consuming.
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

OpenSUSE support in Cloud Developer Tools for Linux/MacOS - Installer

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 4 Not under consideration

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

K8s/dynamic persisted volumes/annoation to set linux access rights

We have the issue, that we require a new persisted volume using the IBM dynamic feature. The access rights are per default:drwxr-xr-x 6 nobody 4294967294 4096 Apr 19 15:10 . So we have to change the rights beforhand, so the docker of keycloak for ...
almost 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Integrate ibmcloud cli into kubectl to obtain access & refresh token if they expired

So far, the workflow is as follows: 1. login / authentication with the ibmcloud CLI 2. obtaining the kubeconfig with the ibmcloud CLI 3. using the current kubeconfig with integrated authentication data 4. if this data expires, start from 1. Other ...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Future consideration

Fraud Detection Using Advanced Machine Learning For E-Commerce And Financial Services

How many of you refrained from online shopping during the pandemic? No, every one of us preferred shopping for clothes, electronics, household items, groceries, and everything using mobile or the web. Digital fraud on the banking and financial ser...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 4 Future consideration

Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Improve the new Bluemix console

The new console has bad design! it wastes so much of my screen and displays way less information than the current console. About 1/3 of my screen width is wasted by empty space. Why? Columns that display number of instances or amount of memory are...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration