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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 all controls from a security compliance profile to have notification

Our cloud environment requires to be compliant based on the CIS profile. This means that after a security and compliance scan we need to be notified if any non-compliant controls have been found. This is required also by the auditor to prove that ...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 0 Future consideration

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

VPC Bandwidth

Currently the VPC infrastructure has no place to track outbound traffic, if this generates any costs. I have a Kubernets service that needs to measure the amount of GB used per month, but unfortunately there is no place that can get this informati...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 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.
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 1 Future consideration

Add-on update on the fly for custom storage class

Recently we did an update of add-on vpc-block-csi-driver to version 4.2 and we noticed that all default storage classes are now extendable, I mean all have allowVolumeExpansion:true parameter. Some other changes also have been done and all "on the...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring. currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Future consideration

Service tags for Security Groups and ACLs

It would be very helpful if we could work with service tags for the SG and ACL definitions. For example, for Internet traffic, Zones, IBM Cloud Services, Cloudflare, etc. This would make manual and static maintenance of long lists of IPs in the SG...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Additional Plugin Support for RabbitMQ

It would be ideal to grant users the ability to add/enable/disable plugins for the IBM Rabbit MQ service, something that is offered in other managed service offerings of Rabbit MQ.
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

AppID User API Query based on Date Created

We currently query the AppID User Management APIs to get a list of users to then write to our database. As there is not a delta field available we have to load all of the user data everyday. Instead I'd like to query for new users based on date cr...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration