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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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Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
7 months ago in Virtual Servers 4 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...
10 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects. We can delete the COS Instances even if it has child resources like Buckets and Objects in it. This is really a threat to the IBM Cloud COS. If a user gains access and simply click on De...
10 months ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Future consideration

Database for Redis - multiple members in read-only mode

Because our workload is in 95% read-only, and only 5% are writes, we would benefit with different setup - have one member as read/write node, and multiple others as read only - similar what Redis Sentinel is doing.
11 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite

Add supported storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Adapters_and_Drivers/Storage_Adapters_and_Drivers/Containers/Storage_Plug-in_for_Containers. This wou...
11 months ago in Satellite 0 Future consideration

Request for disclosure of knowledge regarding various XenTools issues held by IBM Cloud Support

Currently, our customers are trying to upgrade Xen Tools on VSI. However, they are encountering various difficulties. I'm guessing that IBM Cloud support has also received various inquiries about upgrading XenTools. As a result, I think IBM Cloud ...
12 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Add webhook uri to Transient virtual servers IBM Cloud Interface

It's usefull to be able to add/remove a webhook url from the IBM Cloud Portal Interface for Transient virtual servers and not using just the Softlayer API SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setTransientWebhook.
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Provide invoice details via (Billing) API using a ServiceID (Billing/Viewer)

Can you pls. extend the (Billing) API to allow retrieval of the index/list of invoices as well attachments (PDF, PDF-extended, XLS) via the API using (!) a ServiceID w/ API key and "Billing/Viewer" access policy assigned? The CLI tool doesn't offe...
over 2 years ago in Billing 2 Future consideration

Failed Login Attempts are not their in LogDNA even if we target specific account from CLI

Myself i tried to login into my account using CLI and see the logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker (eu-de region) I ran command "ibmcloud login -c <account-no> --apikey <wrong-api-key>" As i am targeting specific ibm account, ideally it ...
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Provide feature to allow customer to create routing rule for Direct Link 2.0

I have created new Direct Link 2.0 service to setup a interconnection between a IBM Cloud VPC and a IBM Power Subnet. I have found out the routing won't automatically work after I created the connection. I will need to create support ticket, then ...
over 4 years ago in Direct Link 0 Future consideration