IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


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Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

ibmcloud CLI for arm architecture

Currently, ibmcloud CLI does NOT support ARM architecture: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-release/releases/ That would be nice to support them, such as linux/arm64(Mac M1) and linux/arm/v7(Raspberry Pi), also. There would be many devel...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Not under consideration

Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Not under consideration

Request for Additional Worker Pool Flavor with Increased Disk Capacity

Additional worker pool flavors with 300GB disk capacity (or more) but lower CPU/memory specifications. The current b3c.16x64.300gb flavor provides adequate storage but over-provisioned resources. Proposed new flavors: b3c.16x32.300gb b3c.8x32.300g...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisioning process to eliminate the occurrence of duplicate IP assignments.

While provisioning RDCP UAT Open Shift cluster, one of the primary IP from a Primary VLAN got auto assigned which caused outage in the PROD environment due to IP conflict. Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisionin...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Subnets / IPs 7 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud File Storage support for cluster namespace

IBM Cloud File Storage (Classic and VPC) support for cluster namespace to allow for the reduction of vm/host mountpoints. In particular, there is a customer moving thousands of servers to IBM Cloud. This customer has hundreds of servers with clust...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Add fields for Bluemix Maintenance Notifications

Hi, It would be extremely useful for us to add more posible fields to the notifications that we are subscribed. Searching in the Bluemix Console Documentation the only values available for the notifications are the following: {{content.categor...
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Reduce need to re authenticate when 2 factor is enabled

We are using 2 factor authentication to sign in to IBMs cloud. This is enabled both for the web ui and for the cli. Our team uses an authenticator app for the second factor. This authentication setup requires re-authentication too often. I am unsu...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 1 Not under consideration

Provide a reliable method to identify instance storage disks attached to VSIs on the disk driver level.

Identifying instance storage disks attached to VSIs in IBM Cloud is currently not straightforward on the disk driver level. The suggested solutions from IBM all have their drawbacks and are not reliable from a long-term perspective. The solutions ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

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