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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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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

Add-on update on the fly for custom storage class

Recently we did an update of add-on vpc-block-csi-driver to version 4.2 and we noticed that all default storage classes are now extendable, I mean all have allowVolumeExpansion:true parameter. Some other changes also have been done and all "on the...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Future consideration

Change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine".

I want to change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine”. So this feature makes to easy deploy (ex. canary release) Cloud Run(GCP) has been able to do that. I think Code Engine needs similar feature too.
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 1 Future 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

Metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring. currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes - vpc through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes for VPC in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring.currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 5 Functionality already exists

Option to disable DA upgrade button

A Deployable Architecture supports Day 1 deployment patterns but not upgrade scenarios. We need a programmatic way to disable the upgrade button on the UI. Not all DAs support the full operational lifecycle. There is a valid pattern of usage where...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / UX and Console 0 Future consideration

Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 2 Planned for future release

CIS plan usage

Currently it is not possible to see the usage of the CIS plans. For example, the standard plan has 5 TB of protected traffic, 10 million DNS queries, 10 million HTTP requests and 1 million edge function requests. Where do I see where I stand? Is t...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Functionality already exists

Service tags for Security Groups and ACLs

It would be very helpful if we could work with service tags for the SG and ACL definitions. For example, for Internet traffic, Zones, IBM Cloud Services, Cloudflare, etc. This would make manual and static maintenance of long lists of IPs in the SG...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration