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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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Enable PodNodeSelector admission controller plugin

Hello, In some case, we need to dedicate some worker nodes to a specific workload. It can do easily by defining a node selector policy on the namespace and each pods deploy in this namespace will inherited of this policy. But to work, it's nece...
almost 3 years ago in Containers 0 Future consideration

Java development in Bluemix

Hi, When developing a Java application which uses services, there should be an easy way to run it locally and still have connection to all the services. The VCAP_SERVICES environment variable should be seamlessly configured to the local Liberty. ...
about 8 years ago in Templates & Best Practises 2 Not under consideration

Customize Bluemix landing page content

Provide a way to customize the content of Bluemix landing page for Dedicated and Local. It would be useful for clients to be able to remove content that is not applicable in their environment (i.e. containers) as well as to add client specific lin...
about 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

UI options in portal - for Rename, Move files between buckets of same COS instance

I see that there is an API for COS to move objects between one bucket to another bucket of same instance. I guess it allows users to define the new file name to be used to copy to another bucket. However, when i review the similar options, we do n...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration

Enable Monitoring for ESXi Running on Classic BareMetal Servers and Extend PowerVS Monitoring in Tor01, MON01, Dallas 12 and WDC7

Hello, based on the request from support team, I request to enable Monitoring for ESXi Running on Classic BareMetal Servers and Extend PowerVS Monitoring in Tor01, MON01, Dallas 12 and WDC7. We have few customers who are aggressively looking to mi...
9 months ago in Bare Metal 1 Functionality already exists

BM user Password Expiry Policy

Currently Bluemix does not have any password expiry policy. Customer from Finance domain has requested to have a password expiry policy (configurable if possible) for BM users.
over 7 years ago in Administration 2 Not under consideration

request to include iam-identity.apikey.get action in the Viewer role.

It would be great if we could access the apikey with the Viewer role instead of the Operator or Administrator role. For some people using the Operator/Admin role does not meet their security policy.
about 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

get Pods, Namespaces, Nodes... info from the IBM Cloud Kubernetes API

from the IBM Cloud API for Kubernetes the documentation of which is here: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/kubernetes we get info about the Clusters but not about pods, namespace and so on. The idea here is to enhance this IBM Cloud API to provide th...
about 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Database for Redis - multiple members in read-only mode

Because our workload is in 95% read-only, and only 5% are writes, we would benefit with different setup - have one member as read/write node, and multiple others as read only - similar what Redis Sentinel is doing.
10 months ago in Databases 0 Future 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)
10 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration