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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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properly connect services when deploying apps to CloudFoundry

Currently you can create an application in the IBMCloud dashboard or via the CLI, and you can also add services to that app. However when you deploy that app to CloudFoundry in any way (CLI or WEbUI directly, or via a DevOps Toolchain) the service...
over 4 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Permissions to override retention policy

If someone sets a retention policy on an object/bucket, it would be helpful for select users (e.g. the account owner) to be able to override that and delete it. It's useful to have retention policies to prevent accidentally deleting data or ransom...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Future consideration

support $binary_remote_addr as key in NGINX ingress controller rate limit annotation

NGINX ingress controller rate limit should support $binary_remote_addr as key. So that rate limiting setup with annotations on the ingress controller can be setup to rate limit based on ip address of request. Like most nginx examples, and I woul...
over 4 years ago in Containers 0 Future consideration

Kubernetes worker node upgrade should respect PodDisruptionBudget

We are using Kubernetes PodDisruptionBudget to prevent voluntary disruptions of services. This should include the drain of worker nodes during worker node upgrade. While a manual kubectl drain fails in case of insufficient running replicas, IBM Cl...
almost 5 years ago in Containers 0 Future consideration

Support Ticket Filter Options

It is very difficult finding old tickets in the new IBM support portal. As it currently stands, there is only a search field and filter by status. The old softlayer portal and the "view archived cases" has a much more robust filter option which I ...
almost 5 years ago in Support 2 Future consideration

Detailed control of users and access.

232/5000 Having a control of users, roles and permissions is very relevant for companies. It is currently possible to have a very simple view of users and accesses, but a detailed and exportable report is lacking to have exhaustive cont...
almost 5 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

"Unsubscribed Notificacion in a product"

When an API is unsubscribed in a product, all people belonging to the development organization receive an email warning of what has happened. Can I configure a rule to be able to choose the users that need to be notified? Is it possible to disable...
about 5 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Future consideration

Display progress and prospects for issues on IBM Cloud status.

We would like you to display progress and prospects for issue items. Some items only have IMPACT and simple STATUS. (see attached file)
over 5 years ago in  2 Future consideration

in the ticketing system, make the offering system searchable by typing in it

when opening tickets, the Offering field can be typed and intuitively one would think this is to be able to search typing partially or entirely the string searched. However, as confirmed by your help desk this is not the case: ``` Regarrding the...
over 5 years ago in Support 2 Future consideration

Allow other users than Master User manage DTS tickets (SL / Bluemix DTS)

Presently only our Master User can manage DTS tickets. This work is done by our entire team and causes delays trying to get assistance from our Master User for this.
over 6 years ago in Administration 0 Future consideration