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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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Support for Parquet S3 Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL for psql PaaS

Please add support for parquet S3 FDW for s3 server ad external data wrapper. It's been officially released on Dic 23 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/parquet-s3-fdw-110-released-2768/ but right now it's not an extension supported by IBM Clou...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 7 Future consideration

Usage Dashboard - Need to know the space cost

Under the usage dashboard, currently we can view the cost of the services and runtime for the organization. We need the ability to drill down to the spaces and find the cost associated with services and runtime under a space.
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

Need ability to move and delete Enterprise Account Account Groups

We currently have an Enterprise Account and organize accounts for billing using its hierarchy capabilities via Account Groups. We can create, move and rename most things but cannot move or delete Account Groups. This means our Enterprise Account n...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Future consideration

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorder in Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies

All Users IBM Cloud Activities Must be Recorded somewhere in IBM Cloud Activity Logs and should be visible based on new RBAC policies. Reason - Indivisual users does individual tasks on various IBM cloud services but there is no single pane of gla...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 4 Functionality already exists

Disable Promotion and Credits View to All Users

Hi, All users are able to see Promotions and Credit page by design. IBM should make a permission check, it should be disabled to every single user in the account. All users in the account are not mandatory supposed to view any financial or billing...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 2 Future consideration

I want to delete an object on the Cloud Logs's Archive query page

I understand that it is possible to view logs from the archive from the Logs page and Archive query page. However, our request is to delete objects that are not reused from the archive query page. Users are not necessarily familiar with how to u...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Local or Toll Free Number to contact IBM Cloud Support from the UK

Currently the only way to contact IBM Cloud directly via telephone is on the +1-866-403-7638 number which is Toll free from the US, but chargeable in the UK (and anywhere outside of the US I assume). If you have extended support calls and you are ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support 1 Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 1 Future 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...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Planned for future release

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services. Useful to send emails from native monitoring services.
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 5 Functionality already exists