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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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Option to enable Alpha features in Kubernetes

Kubernetes has some feature flags for Alpha features. For example, to use "CSI restore from snapshot" feature in Kubernetes 1.13, Kubernetes API server needs to initialized with VolumeSnapshotDataSource feature enabled. If IBM had an option to ena...
almost 6 years ago in  1 Future consideration

IBMCLOUD CLI or WebConsole: Allow Kubernetes Cluster 'Owner' to be changed

When you examine the 'IBM Cloud' Kuberenetes Clusters Overview for a cluster in your development organization, and the 'Owner' attribute for the cluster: 1) there currently is no IBMCLOUD command line (CLI) nor WebConsole UI feature to allow that ...
almost 6 years ago in  2 Future consideration

Http endpoint for external monitoring

We have had a networking problem in our side and our Bluemix apps have become unreachable. We got monitoring alerts from the applications but we are not monitoring Bluemix itself so we would like to set up http monitors on our side so ni case of a...
almost 7 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Additional Plugin Support for RabbitMQ

It would be ideal to grant users the ability to add/enable/disable plugins for the IBM Rabbit MQ service, something that is offered in other managed service offerings of Rabbit MQ.
about 1 month ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Option to disable DA upgrade button

A Deployable Architecture supports Day 1 deployment patterns but not upgrade scenarios. We need a programmatic way to disable the upgrade button on the UI. Not all DAs support the full operational lifecycle. There is a valid pattern of usage where...
about 2 months ago in UX and Console 0 Future consideration

Feature requests for IBM Transit Gateway Route Tables.

Proposed feature: Like the AWS implementation ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/tgw-route-tables.html ), users can define the Transit Gateway Route Table (TGRT) per connection. In the example below, customer-1’s TGRT can see the route t...
2 months ago in Network 0 Future consideration

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL disaggregated memory

This idea is important because of the following: 1- For Openshift AI: A- This idea will efficiently manage, control and deployment the Generative AI LLMs Models, RAGs, Knowledge graphs between the cloud and on-premise data centers. B- This idea wi...
4 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow for VPC boot disk sizes greater than 250GiB

Currently, VPC boot disks are limited to a max of 250GiB. We have use-cases where having larger boot disk sizes (e.g. 512GiB or 1TiB) would be adventageous. Other cloud providers that we have tested, allow for boot disk sizes in the mulitples of T...
5 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent for Z VSI

IBM will announce IBM Cloud Logs Routing services for logging. IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent doesnt support Z platform today. Z VSI customers need s390x version of IBM Cloud Logs Routing Agent to connect to their IBM Cloud Logs Routing services. Th...
6 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration