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Regarding the Classic Infrastructure configuration change screen on the Portal.

Regarding the price display on the Configuration Change screen for Classic Infrastructure on the portal. It is difficult to understand the price display before ordering when changing the configuration. Therefore, we would like the following specif...
about 1 year ago in Ordering 0 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 ...
10 months 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.
10 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
about 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to take snapshots on Power Systems Virtual Server

Issue: Currently, there is no GUI to take a snapshot of an instance on Power Systems Virtual Server. Solution: Make it easy to take a snapshot of your instance using the GUI. Effect: The convenience of the service is improved. Workaround:...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Power VS do not have any mechanism to increase the timeout: VNC Console

Kindly increase the timeout for VNC console, there is high probability of disconnection in case of weekly backup. and backup can end immediately or stuck in between.
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 1 Future 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...
12 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

Change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine".

I want to change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine”. So this feature makes to easy deploy (ex. canary release) Cloud Run(GCP) has been able to do that. I think Code Engine needs similar feature too.
about 3 years ago in Containers 1 Future consideration

gRPC support between Code Engine applications

Considering gRPC is well-defined and used thouroughly in cloud deployments from small startups to global scaled services, it makes little sense that IBM Cloud Engine does not support this type of microservice communications. My company is using a ...
about 2 years ago in  0 Future consideration

API for submitting new apps in IBM Cloud Partner Center

VMware/Bitnami has a pipeline that automatically builds, test, release and promote applications. This system owns all the publishing metadata. Currently the process for adding new applications is manual which no only breaks our automated pipeline ...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration