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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 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

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.
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Not under 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

[ENH] Allow multiple Satellite Connectors and API keys on IBM Satellite Connector Agent config.json file

Currently, IBM Satellite Agent can only be configured to use single unique API key at a time within a single Satellite Windows service. Customers using separate IBM Cloud onDemand solutions e.g. IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics on D...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 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.
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Get Notifications events via API

Currently the only way to notify maintenance events is via mail and unidirectionally or by entering the web. There is no way to consult via API (or in any other way) the maintenance / events bulletin. It would be of great help if this bulletin is ...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

IBM Cloud Logs Agent to support sending logs to Instana Logs

Today, IBM Cloud Logs Agent[1] supports sending logs only to IBM Cloud Logs instance. ICL Agent could support sending logs to Instana Logs[2], too. This idea is to add support for Instana Logs in ICL Agent so clients can have only one agent to sen...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Request for Additional Worker Pool Flavor with Increased Disk Capacity

Additional worker pool flavors with 300GB disk capacity (or more) but lower CPU/memory specifications. The current b3c.16x64.300gb flavor provides adequate storage but over-provisioned resources. Proposed new flavors: b3c.16x32.300gb b3c.8x32.300g...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Request for keeping SSL-VPN IP address range

We are using SSL-VPN endpoint service on IBM cloud.Due to duplicate IP address on on-premise enviroment, we could only use tok02 endpoint (https://vpn.tok02.softlayer.com/prx/000/http/localhost/login/index.html). But about a week ago, I found that...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network 0 Is a defect

Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisioning process to eliminate the occurrence of duplicate IP assignments.

While provisioning RDCP UAT Open Shift cluster, one of the primary IP from a Primary VLAN got auto assigned which caused outage in the PROD environment due to IP conflict. Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisionin...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Subnets / IPs 7 Not under consideration