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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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In API is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date”

In Secrets Management API it is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date” … our app needs to check if any secrets gets changed to reload them in our app, otherwise we need to reload every time all of the. We have few hundreds ...
over 1 year ago in Secrets Manager 1 Delivered

Sending EMAIL and SMS from IBM ROKS OpenShift Cluster pods

We would like to use IBM Cloud Event Notification service in our application to send SMS, Email, push notifications. Since our application is running on IBM Cloud OpenShift platform it is not supporting this integration.
almost 2 years ago in Event Streams 0 Delivered

Re-introduce a free limited time account for trial use

We have a problem. Since the demise of the Lite account, users who want to try out IBM Cloud need to provide credit card details. However, first, many people are put off adding their credit card details and second, many are being rejected, for rea...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Server status in the portal is automatically reflected even when shutdown is executed (not from portal actions menu, but) from OS function.

I would like the status to be displayed correctly (the power-on menu appears) in the "Action.." menu of the portal even when the OS is shut down. Alternatively, I would like to see a display that shows that there is no problem in executing the pow...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

What is your credit card number - is solving the WRONG PROBLEM

With the myriad of shortcomings and issues with ibm cloud billing, requiring a credit number for a new ibm cloud account is forcing serious questions about IBM's tactics and intentions within customer organizations. A customer purchased a $100K su...
almost 3 years ago in Billing 1 Delivered

Block storage volume snapshots for VPC Openshift PVCs

For Openshift VPC we mostly use Block Storage due to better performance.But is pretty needed to have a backup mechanism to safeguard our data in case of unexpected dissaster.
almost 3 years ago in Block Storage 2 Delivered

IBMCloud Schematics Codeless IaC

Our company is using Schematics service to create entire environments. We have run into several issues and challenges to using schematics service to stand up customer envs A simple answer we often received was, why don't we just use the terraform ...
over 3 years ago in  2 Delivered

Allow all events to got a single Activity Tracker instance of our choosing

When we automate the creation of new sub-accounts, they currently will require an Activity Tracker in Frankfurt as well as Activity Trackers for other regions where resources may exist. This means we will always need two ATs. We would rather just ...
over 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 8 Delivered

Access to resources via Local IP on “Code Engine"

"Code Engine" will need access to data souce.(like database) Serverless application can’t control their global IPs. Many developers may need to secure access to their data souce. But now it can’t. I hope “Code Engine” access to data souce in IBM C...
about 4 years ago in  2 Delivered

Add CIS Benchamrk Images to IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud need to offer CIS Benchmark images. Other cloud providers have this as part of their portfolio: https://www.cisecurity.org/hardened-images/
about 6 years ago in Compliance 2 Delivered