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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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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

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...
4 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
8 months ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
9 months ago in Compliance 6 Future consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation?

1.**Please describe the problem you are experiencing in detail.** Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation? [a]Screen display of each action on IBM Cloud takes about 5 sec to 1 min. ex. ・Have to always wait to ...
about 2 years ago in Compute 0 Future consideration

Allow generation of VSI performance stats from CLI

Currently the performance report can only be generated from the UI. Being able to do it from the cli would allow it to be scripted and automated.
about 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Missing useful information in IBM cloud portal

Hello, i am working as infrastructure DPE for Kyndryl cloud offerings (AMMSAP, SEI). As part of my monthly checks in IBM cloud portal, i need to find in the device view an additional column with asset status (ACTIVE, RECLAIM, ...).
almost 3 years ago in Administration 3 Future consideration

Add multiple tags at once using ibmcloud

So far is possible to add a tag to a single device by using the command: "ibmcloud resource tag-attach --tag-names TAG --resource-name NAME". However, is NOT possible to do it for multiple devices. It should be great if it could work for multiple ...
over 3 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Console event display

Even if I select "IBM cloud Platform", my expected events are not displayed in the list. "Filter by component" is displayed in English only.However, for accounts using Japanese, "IBM Cloud Platform" is displayed as "IBM Cloud プラットフォーム" in the even...
about 5 years ago in Administration 0 Future consideration