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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


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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Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
over 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future 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...
9 months ago in Virtual Servers 4 Future consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under 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.
9 months ago in Billing 0 Planned for future release

Java development in Bluemix

Hi, When developing a Java application which uses services, there should be an easy way to run it locally and still have connection to all the services. The VCAP_SERVICES environment variable should be seamlessly configured to the local Liberty. ...
over 8 years ago in Templates & Best Practises 2 Not under consideration

Customize Bluemix landing page content

Provide a way to customize the content of Bluemix landing page for Dedicated and Local. It would be useful for clients to be able to remove content that is not applicable in their environment (i.e. containers) as well as to add client specific lin...
over 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Rename the routing table with IBM Cloud commands

I want to rename the default routing table that exists in my VPC using IBM Cloud commands. However, I can't find the method by searching the following documents. Would you please let me know if there is such a command or documentation that describ...
about 3 years ago in CLI 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to add Trusted Profile identity into an Access Group

In order to fully federate authorization from IBM Cloud to our Active Directory in a way that does not require us to invite users to an account, we need the capability to give a Trusted Profile identity membership in an IBM Cloud Access Group. Thi...
about 3 years ago in Security 0 Planned for future release

About changing the EMAIL address of the SoftlayerID user

There are still many users using SoftlayerID on the IBM Cloud portal. However, recently, IBM Cloud made it impossible to change their email address on their SoftlayerID user profile. Please revert this specification, and restore the ability for So...
about 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

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
about 3 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration