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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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CVSS score of vulnerabilities included in VA

Currently it's not possible to distinguish between less risky, medium risky, and high risky vulnerabilities. All are the same from IBM perspective. So the CVSS score (v3) would be a great help to use it in ci/cd pipelines and distinguish between b...
over 4 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Invoice Enhancement: Attach a copy of the invoice to emails when announcing a new invoice is available

As an enterprise customer, I should be able to have any and all invoices for my account emailed directly to my Accounts Payable department when new invoices come available. There is no reason to require me, personally, to actually download a copy ...
over 4 years ago in  2 Future consideration

URL management for Multi-AZ K8s cluster

Currently, the URL to access a multi-AZ k8s cluster is dynamically created with little possibility for the customer to influence it. https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-ingress-about&locale=en%5C043science#mzlb In organizat...
almost 5 years ago in Containers 2 Future consideration

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...
over 5 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 ...
over 5 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...
over 6 years ago in  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...
about 1 month ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

ibmcloud CLI cos plugin: add command to get bucket configuration / metadata

Currently the only way to get the bucket total number of objects and total size as is: In the IBM Cloud Portal web UI go to the bucket configuration Manually calling the API with curl https://config.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com/v1/b/{my-buck...
2 months ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

Have the Failover check "down-after-milliseconds" Sentinel attribute to be Customer configurable

The down-after-milliseconds is the time in milliseconds an instance should not be reachable (either does not reply to our PINGs or it is replying with an error) for a Sentinel starting to think it is down. Currently we are unable to configure/chan...
2 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Make DS8K storage available in IBM PowerVS to provide organizations with high-performance storage options for their workloads.

It is useful because DS8K storage offers high-performance and reliability features that can benefit organizations with demanding workloads. Organizations using IBM PowerVS would benefit from this availability as it provides them with a storage opt...
7 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration