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We need a REST and CLI interface to generate API keys for the account owner and other functional/service IDs.

I am part of a team that manages over 1 hundred IBM Cloud accounts and counting. We have automated all the steps of configuring a new account, e.g., resource groups, access groups, access policies, inviting users. But creating an API key requires ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 4 Not under consideration

Cilium for secure Multi-Ach communication between mainframe and Public Cloud

Cilium by Isovalent is software for an encrypted communication between different Kubernetes clusters. They provide support for different architectures on Service Mesh (Istio) for the communication between Kubernetes clusters, on Proxy level and mo...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Kubernetes Service 0 Under review

Need the ability to have a ramp period in the cost model to allow for the onboaeding of the initial clients over 60-90 days

having a ramp period that has no or a reduced committed spend is key so that the client to harden the deployment, install tooling and ramp and move over clients without as much risk to the MSP or ISV
3 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Under review

Add Submitter for when you add Ideas into a Shared Group.

When have a Shared Group for Dept, one can not scan the Group Ideas to see who submitted what.
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 1 Not under consideration

AIX does not support Live Kernel Updates on PowerVS Private Cloud

AIX Live Kernel Updates (LKU) for IBM Power is a feature that allows system administrators to apply critical AIX security patches and kernel updates without requiring a reboot or causing downtime. This is particularly valuable for enterprise envir...
8 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Under review

Request for Secrets Manager a free plan "Reserved Insance" Customer

Since this week the Certificate Manager was moved off and replaced by the Secret Manager. We are using APIc v10 RI where there was a free plan for the certificate manager, which was perfect for us. Now, we need to pay for the new Secret Manager 29...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Functionality already exists

Notification for BCS/FCS B side failure

We heard that the emergency announce will be reported only when BCS/FCS both A/B side are on failure, and there are no announcement when only BCS/FCS B side failure is on failure. But I want a announcement. Because we are using both BCS/FCS and wh...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VLAN 0 Not under consideration

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and how does it help businesses?

I’ve recently come across Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, but I’m not fully clear on what it does. Can someone explain what Business Central is and how it actually helps businesses improve their operations? Answer: Microsoft Dynamics 365 ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Z-Other 0 Not under consideration

Notify IBM Cloud customers in advance when the SSL/TLS certificate for iam.cloud.ibm.com is to be changed

A customer had an issue that one of the IBM Cloud services was not working because the root CA of the SSL/TLS certificate for iam.cloud.ibm.com changed from Digicert G1 to Digicert G3. It was resolved by the customer by adding the root and interme...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 0 Under review