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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 Internet access on PowerVS without Internet publishing

When we don't add Internet access to our network settings we are not able to download PTFs, fixes, updates or install open source tools, unless we set an instance with this features or jump to VPC landing zone and use a VRA or proxy VM. It would b...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 2 Not under consideration

Allow to connect to the IBM Cloud portal from VPC and PowerVS instances (without Internet access)

Sometimes we need to automate or script some actions on our VMs or LPARs for backup, restore, and management purposes. It would be great to connect to the portal using the CLI or APIs pointing to a local address (maybe the gateway)
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Not under consideration

Enable Billing Data to Reseller Account for Distributor Managed Accounts Under CLI as well

I own a Reseller account account and can see my Distributor Managed (Another Company) accounts under my reseller account as https://cloud.ibm.com/billing/accounts through UI. I want to see this through CLI as well. Currently only "account-usage" a...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Planned for future release

Display group membership in UI when user added via dynamic rule.

Per IBM documentation: "When users are added to an access group by a rule, they aren't displayed as members on the access group user list." How are users who do not have access to the ibmcloud command line going to know what groups they are in? We...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 0 Planned for future release

DMZ type of deployment configuration

In a typical application I have several components running on Bluemix and now all of them exposes their interfaces to the public network. Of course they have been protected by https and various credentials. Anyway this exposes more interfaces to p...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Document what settings are only available via the IBM Cloud Console (UI)

In attempting to build automation to create new enterprise accounts, and set them up, it was discovered there's some account settings that are only available in the IBM Cloud Console (ie the Web UI), but not available to be set programmatically (v...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Future consideration

Exporting the report once the case is resolved

Hello IBM, We do raise cases with IBM to resolved the issues which connects to APIC. But once the issue is resolved we are not able to export the entire ticket updates. We required this for our future reference if the same issue occur and we can g...
about 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support 3 Future consideration

I would like to see cloud foundry to support TLS1.3.

The open source CF has clear documentation supporting TLS1.3. But IBM Cloud foundry (public) is not offering TLS 1.3 for apps deployed in CF. TLS 1.3 improves transport security. https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/adminguide/securing-traffic.html#tls_1.3
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Not under consideration

IBM Delivery Pipeline Logs

IBM Delivery Pipeline logs should be present and stored somewhere to keep a track of activities and errors for future reference
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Not under consideration

Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 1 Not under consideration