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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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Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
about 1 year ago in Power 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud File Storage support for cluster namespace

IBM Cloud File Storage (Classic and VPC) support for cluster namespace to allow for the reduction of vm/host mountpoints. In particular, there is a customer moving thousands of servers to IBM Cloud. This customer has hundreds of servers with clust...
about 2 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

gRPC support between Code Engine applications

Considering gRPC is well-defined and used thouroughly in cloud deployments from small startups to global scaled services, it makes little sense that IBM Cloud Engine does not support this type of microservice communications. My company is using a ...
over 2 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Ability to Downgrade from Standard to Lite Plan

It would be great to be able to downgrade from the paid standard plans to the lite plan in the event that your project scope changes instead of having to completely delete your account.
over 2 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
over 2 years ago in Power 2 Not under consideration

Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation?

1.**Please describe the problem you are experiencing in detail.** Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation? [a]Screen display of each action on IBM Cloud takes about 5 sec to 1 min. ex. ・Have to always wait to ...
over 1 year ago in Compute 0 Future consideration

Allow generation of VSI performance stats from CLI

Currently the performance report can only be generated from the UI. Being able to do it from the cli would allow it to be scripted and automated.
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

API for submitting new apps in IBM Cloud Partner Center

VMware/Bitnami has a pipeline that automatically builds, test, release and promote applications. This system owns all the publishing metadata. Currently the process for adding new applications is manual which no only breaks our automated pipeline ...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration

Add fields for Bluemix Maintenance Notifications

Hi, It would be extremely useful for us to add more posible fields to the notifications that we are subscribed. Searching in the Bluemix Console Documentation the only values available for the notifications are the following: {{content.categor...
about 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration