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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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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...
over 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

dotnet:3.1 runtime for Cloud Functions

Right now, the only dotnet runtime in IBM Cloud Functions is dotnet:2.2, and .NET Core 2.2 is past its EOL. It'd be nice to have the most recent .NET runtime (3.1, which won't be EOL until more than a year from now) added so we can use it.
over 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

I want 'GitLab Community Edition Link' on my IBM Cloud dashboard

For example, use the'Node-RED Starter kit'in IBM Cloud to create a new resource. This will automatically create a toolchain and at the same time add'Git Repos '. after a while After you finish using the resource, delete the automatically crea...
over 3 years ago in  3 Planned for future release

Identifying a VPC Gen 2 Block Storage from inside a VSI

Hi as a Cloud Operator, I woule like to build some VSI on VPC Gen 2 (Linux and Windows) with several volumes attached during the provisioning step. Some of them have the same size but different functions. So I need to know which VPC Block Storage ...
over 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 2 Functionality already exists

Detailed messages when storage runs out of ports

I had a recent issue when the Tier 3 port definitions reached their maximum number, so every deployment just went to error state - no messages and no status updates on the state of the Data Centre. Suggest better error capture and alerting around ...
over 3 years ago in  1 Planned for future release

Change network configuration of the VSI without re-provisioning

In the VSI, it's currently not possible to add or remove network adapters without re-provisioning the VSI. Simple elements such as adding network interface to a new VLAN or changing a network adapter configuration.
over 3 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

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

Failed Login Attempts are not their in LogDNA even if we target specific account from CLI

Myself i tried to login into my account using CLI and see the logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker (eu-de region) I ran command "ibmcloud login -c <account-no> --apikey <wrong-api-key>" As i am targeting specific ibm account, ideally it ...
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Security questions' answers are shown as plain text

When we login into IBM Cloud, there is Security questions (If Configured) for 2FA. In the security questions, if we type the answer it is not hidden as secret instead it reflect as plain text.
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu20 support for classic infrastructure

Recently we got email about EOL for Ubuntu16. So the only option will be Ubuntu18 soon. We need to resetup plenty of servers, so it would be great to go with Ubuntu20 at once
over 3 years ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release