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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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Security Insights Key scanning

AWS uses their “AWS Trusted Advisor” to scan for AWS credentials and security keys within software repositories. We need to have the same capability for Security Insights (SCC) to scan repositories for IBM Cloud API keys
almost 3 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

GO API support for IBM Kubernetes Service

Hi Team We are working on open source project called https://steampipe.io/ part of it, we are addressing multiple cloud platform compliance & governance benchmarks by SQL queries. We are looking forward to address IBM compliances part of it (h...
almost 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

UI options in portal - for Rename, Move files between buckets of same COS instance

I see that there is an API for COS to move objects between one bucket to another bucket of same instance. I guess it allows users to define the new file name to be used to copy to another bucket. However, when i review the similar options, we do n...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration

Machine learning Interface.

A website is browsed, without VPN or Incognito but in normal surfing mode and you try to delete the history of a particular website. If this continues more than twice the pc/mobile phone should send notification helping him/her to delete the histo...
about 3 years ago in Mobile 1 Not under consideration

A screen copying and pasting device

This device can copy texts or graphics from one screen of a system and paste same on the screen of another system. It should be like a human finger that can just wipe the screen and duplicate that part on another screen of a system.
about 3 years ago in Mobile 2 Not under consideration

ibmcloud CLI for arm architecture

Currently, ibmcloud CLI does NOT support ARM architecture: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-release/releases/ That would be nice to support them, such as linux/arm64(Mac M1) and linux/arm/v7(Raspberry Pi), also. There would be many devel...
about 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Downgrade from Standard to Lite Plan

It would be great to be able to downgrade from the paid standard plans to the lite plan in the event that your project scope changes instead of having to completely delete your account.
about 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
about 3 years ago in Power 2 Not under consideration

request to include iam-identity.apikey.get action in the Viewer role.

It would be great if we could access the apikey with the Viewer role instead of the Operator or Administrator role. For some people using the Operator/Admin role does not meet their security policy.
about 3 years ago in  0 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.
about 3 years ago in CLI 1 Not under consideration