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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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Catalog is starting to get confusing, will only get more confusing

During my first pass at Bluemix I became lost in all the technologies available. I did not understand them all and I went with a simpler / inferior solution - Parse.com. As IBM acquires more cool technologies the catalog will only get deeper and m...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Allow consumer lag metric in IBM managed Sysdig from IBM Enterprise Event Streams

When using Enterprise Event Streams we are able to visualize metrics through managed sysdig. In looking through Sysdig documentation there is no way to check Kafka consumer lag through metrics. This is an important metric as it can verify consumer...
about 3 years ago in  0 Delivered

Ability for PowerVS LPAR (VM) to access storage from different affinity (not tier!)

For availbility it would be an advantage if a VM could access Storage from different affinity groups (controllers). This would allow the administrator to move data from one affinity group to another or to have a VM which mirrors data across storag...
over 3 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Ability to specify and monitor affinity when creating storage volumes on PowerVS

Requesting the ability to specifiy affinity (Controller) when provisioning PowerVS Storage volumes. This would also require that the affinity of existing volumes is displayed in Storage volume properties. This will resolve problem caused by curren...
over 3 years ago in  0 Delivered

Only one instance of "Activity Tracker with LogDNA" should collect all regions' event.

We should now create "Activity Tracker with LogDNA" on Frankfrut for gloabal event and create other instances on each region for local events. And We should search events all logs indivisually, also setup alterts indivisually. This takes labor. On...
about 4 years ago in  3 Delivered

iOS APN - need to configure with .p8 file format

number:CS2075495 Hi Team, We need to configure Push Notification instance iOS APN and we have .p8 format cert file, can you confirm if it support .p8 file format for iOS APN. If not then can you add this to be considered as a new feature in Push N...
about 4 years ago in  2 Delivered

Console for PowerVS via IBMCloud GUI

The console provided by the GUI is very basic and has no ability to cutand paste from the window. Capturing an image doesn't really cut it for documentation, and some passwords need pasting. Well aware that ssh can be used once the environment is ...
about 4 years ago in  4 Delivered

Dashboard display of services that need attention (upgrades, discontinuation)

What if the dashboard for IBM Cloud has the ability to display items that need special attention such upgrade or depreciation notice. i.e. if any RabbbitMQ 3.7 exists, 3.7 will be discontinued 9-10, Or your IKS cluster is 2 weeks away from falling...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option

VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option. The basic benefit of cloud is elasticity and feature like dynamic re-sizing according to needs. like we can upgrade to a higer size or vice-versa as per usage. Almost all providers give it out of ...
over 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered