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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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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

Log Analysis dashboard session

When I open the Log Analysis dashboard, after a short amount of time (maybe ~20-30 minutes), the session seems to expire and I'm automatically redirected to the Log Analysis instances list page (https://cloud.ibm.com/observe/logging). This can be ...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Is a defect

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 1 Future 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.
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Not under consideration

VPC Bandwidth

Currently the VPC infrastructure has no place to track outbound traffic, if this generates any costs. I have a Kubernets service that needs to measure the amount of GB used per month, but unfortunately there is no place that can get this informati...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Future consideration

Get Notifications events via API

Currently the only way to notify maintenance events is via mail and unidirectionally or by entering the web. There is no way to consult via API (or in any other way) the maintenance / events bulletin. It would be of great help if this bulletin is ...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

[ENH] Allow multiple Satellite Connectors and API keys on IBM Satellite Connector Agent config.json file

Currently, IBM Satellite Agent can only be configured to use single unique API key at a time within a single Satellite Windows service. Customers using separate IBM Cloud onDemand solutions e.g. IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics on D...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 0 Future consideration

Request for keeping SSL-VPN IP address range

We are using SSL-VPN endpoint service on IBM cloud.Due to duplicate IP address on on-premise enviroment, we could only use tok02 endpoint (https://vpn.tok02.softlayer.com/prx/000/http/localhost/login/index.html). But about a week ago, I found that...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network 0 Is a defect

Additional Plugin Support for RabbitMQ

It would be ideal to grant users the ability to add/enable/disable plugins for the IBM Rabbit MQ service, something that is offered in other managed service offerings of Rabbit MQ.
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration