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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

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

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 7 Future consideration

Create multizone region & Code Engine support for IBM cloud in India (Chennai)

We are using IBM cloud resources in multiple regions as per our customer needs. We use IBM cloud's Code Engine, Kubernetes Service, Cloudant, DNS, etc. When we tried to create a Code Engine project in Chennai region (India) , it did not allow beca...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Kubernetes Service 0 Future consideration

Deploy Schematics in br-sao

Our client is growing fast in south America and for some reason Schematics is not available in br-sao. So in order to automate the platforms with terraform, we need to declare at least 2 different providers pointing on different regions depending ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / DevOps 1 Not under consideration

Regarding the Classic Infrastructure configuration change screen on the Portal.

Regarding the price display on the Configuration Change screen for Classic Infrastructure on the portal. It is difficult to understand the price display before ordering when changing the configuration. Therefore, we would like the following specif...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Ordering 0 Future consideration

Introduce Db2 Mirror functionality in IBM PowerVS to provide organizations with high availability and real-time data replication capabilities for their Db2 databases.

DB2 Mirror is a critical aspect of high uptime and workload management. It is useful because Db2 Mirror enables continuous data availability, minimizing downtime and ensuring data consistency in case of database failures. Organizations using IBM P...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

ibmcloud pi service-list should show Unauthorized error message if appropriate rather than an empty result

When I used the API key for a Service ID we had created, no workspaces were listed: $ ibmcloud pi service-list Listing services under account [REDACTED] as user ... No instances found in the current account. This is wrong in two ways: 1. There is ...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Is a defect

API for submitting new apps in IBM Cloud Partner Center

VMware/Bitnami has a pipeline that automatically builds, test, release and promote applications. This system owns all the publishing metadata. Currently the process for adding new applications is manual which no only breaks our automated pipeline ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration

Add ISO virtual media support to PowerVS

A virtual ISO media repository could be amazing for install , migrate and restore purposes . Please add this feature to PowerVS
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

Add a "mkvterm" console option to the IBM Cloud CLI "power-iaas" plugin for AIX

Add and option to IBM CLOUD CLI - Power-IaaS plugin, so we can access the "mkvterm" command on NovaLink/PowerVS and AIX intances. The Web console has no cut&paste feature and the time-out can be annoying with long-running processes (ie: instal...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Provide Internet access on PowerVS without Internet publishing

When we don't add Internet access to our network settings we are not able to download PTFs, fixes, updates or install open source tools, unless we set an instance with this features or jump to VPC landing zone and use a VRA or proxy VM. It would b...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 2 Not under consideration