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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

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Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 1

When configuring ODF through Satellite, it would be great to have the assignment automatically label the storage nodes correctly so other workloads outside of ODF do not run there.

Today when using Satellite, if you want to setup storage nodes so they are separate from application nodes, you have to perform a config, then assignment, and then you will have to run a script on the cluster to label/taint the nodes correct as de...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 2 Planned for future release

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Not under consideration

The ability to natively and privately connect from Code Engine to IBM Cloud VPC resources (e.g. Virtual Servers) without going through Satellite Connector, VPN tunnel or over a public endpoint

This would be useful for all customers who want to integrate Code Engine with their existing VPC resources. It would greatly enhance the use cases covered by Code Engine, and competitively, would provide a feature that is built-in on other cloud p...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Restricted write access on OpenShift secrets

For pre-prod environments in OpenShift clusters like SIT, NFT - developers will be having read-write access across all Kubernetes services like deployments, statefulsets, configmap, daemonset, secrets. Unplanned changes to secrets causing issues o...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Use regex instead of prefix for COS type event subscription

When creating a new event subscription of type COS: we can use prefix for files to trigger actions. It would be more useful to use regex instead of (or in addition to) prefix. It would allow me to decrease the number of event subscription that I n...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 1 Under review

OpenAPI definitions for all IBM Cloud services should be publicly available

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs?tab=api-docs Current OpenAPI definitions for IBM Cloud services are available at above page. Customers do not have access to collated GITHUB Repo where IBM Cloud maintains OpenAPI definition of all IBM CLoud services. ht...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Documentation 2 Future consideration

Add pg_partman support in databases

As an IBM customer I have postgres workloads that run in other cloud environments relying on the pg_partman extension. I need pg_partman support in ibm databases in order to run these same workloads in IBM cloud.
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Synchronous mirroring over 2 locations in one IBM Cloud site for block data as a foundation for availability

Background Currently we running + 100 customers with one or several LPARS each (Power Server with IBMi). We would like to migrate to IBM Cloud. These customers run mainly their ERP system in IBMi. The ERP system acts like a business hub, with a lo...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Block Storage 1 Planned for future release