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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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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)
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Not under consideration

Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 7 Future consideration

IBM Delivery Pipeline Logs

IBM Delivery Pipeline logs should be present and stored somewhere to keep a track of activities and errors for future reference
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Not under 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. ...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Templates & Best Practices 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...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 1 Not under 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

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

CCF ask for VCF enhancement - Launchpad / parallel cluster 2x or more spin-Up process

DR Requirement for VMC on AWS migration to IBM Cloud VCF on VPC
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VMware Solutions 0 Planned for future release

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workload on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workloads on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite Please Note: I re- wri...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration