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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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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 ...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compute 0 Future consideration

Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

Allow for VPC boot disk sizes greater than 250GiB

Currently, VPC boot disks are limited to a max of 250GiB. We have use-cases where having larger boot disk sizes (e.g. 512GiB or 1TiB) would be adventageous. Other cloud providers that we have tested, allow for boot disk sizes in the mulitples of T...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 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.
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

New profile High memory with low number of processors

Is there a VPC profile that has a large amount of RAM, but a low number of processors. e.g.:Processors -> 12Memory -> 512GB (minimum)I see the closest one in London is ux2d-16x448.... but that does not have enough memory for the Siemens/Tata...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

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.
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Rename the routing table with IBM Cloud commands

I want to rename the default routing table that exists in my VPC using IBM Cloud commands. However, I can't find the method by searching the following documents. Would you please let me know if there is such a command or documentation that describ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to add Trusted Profile identity into an Access Group

In order to fully federate authorization from IBM Cloud to our Active Directory in a way that does not require us to invite users to an account, we need the capability to give a Trusted Profile identity membership in an IBM Cloud Access Group. Thi...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 0 Planned for future release

About changing the EMAIL address of the SoftlayerID user

There are still many users using SoftlayerID on the IBM Cloud portal. However, recently, IBM Cloud made it impossible to change their email address on their SoftlayerID user profile. Please revert this specification, and restore the ability for So...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration