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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".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Implement IASP flash copy

It is useful because it allows for efficient data replication and enables organizations to manage their data effectively in the IBM Cloud environment. Organizations using IBM Cloud would benefit from this feature as it ensures quick and reliable d...
10 months ago in Power 0 Functionality already exists

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects. We can delete the COS Instances even if it has child resources like Buckets and Objects in it. This is really a threat to the IBM Cloud COS. If a user gains access and simply click on De...
10 months ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Future consideration

Satellite storage API support for expansion of COS cluster

Problem summary: Satellite storage APIs support registering desired storage configuration at the time of cluster creation. If however there is a need to add more storage capacity to a cluster then there is no indication to the service requesting t...
over 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

OpenSUSE support in Cloud Developer Tools for Linux/MacOS - Installer

No description provided
over 3 years ago in  4 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...
11 months ago in Bare Metal 1 Functionality already exists

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
over 3 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

Fraud Detection Using Advanced Machine Learning For E-Commerce And Financial Services

How many of you refrained from online shopping during the pandemic? No, every one of us preferred shopping for clothes, electronics, household items, groceries, and everything using mobile or the web. Digital fraud on the banking and financial ser...
over 2 years ago in Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please add R language runtime in catalog

Adding R language runtime will ease you to capture more users of that language. Thank you.
about 8 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Integrate ibmcloud cli into kubectl to obtain access & refresh token if they expired

So far, the workflow is as follows: 1. login / authentication with the ibmcloud CLI 2. obtaining the kubeconfig with the ibmcloud CLI 3. using the current kubeconfig with integrated authentication data 4. if this data expires, start from 1. Other ...
over 3 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration