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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


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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Modify hardware affinity after deployment

After deploying two seperate servers and setting up and configuring PowerHA on them I would like to midify the hardware affinity of them so they will always run on different hardware for the nodes in the cluster. Currently affinity can only be set...
over 4 years ago in Power 1 Delivered

Log history needed in LogDNA for more than 30 days

CS1919810 Hi Team, Can you add a new fature in LogDNA in order to search logs more than 30 days since now it is limited for 30 days log history only. Can you also provide an API, if we need log history for more than 30 days in LogDNA, we need log ...
over 4 years ago in  1 Delivered

Add "enable IP forwarding" feature on a VPC VSI's NIC

All other major cloud service providers have the feature to enable IP forwarding on a VM 's NIC. In Azure it's called "enable IP forwarding": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-network-interface#enable-or-disabl...
over 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Revise the insane amount of time a simple firmware upgrade takes

Hello, We are running a rather large vSAN environment, it was suggested by VMware we upgrade the disk FW. Since I know IBM (Softlayer) it always takes a tremendous amount of time for these simple tasks, so I asked how long a disk firmware upgrade ...
over 4 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Push Notification - Split Device in the Monitor for iOS and Andriod

CS1874320 Hi Team, Devices registered doesn’t give the details of mobile devices split (iOS & Android). Currently for our apps we register only iOS/Android devices with IBM console the data is important for viewing ? We would like to see a spl...
over 4 years ago in  0 Delivered

Allow students to get credits without credit card details

Students are increasingly using cloud services for educational purpose. However, many a times credit card becomes a hurdle since students usually don't own a one. Therefore, if IBM cloud could consider allowing students to subscribe for $200 credi...
over 4 years ago in Billing 2 Delivered

When creating portable storage need the device path to be noted along with the new strorage device

When one creates new storage for a VM would like to be able to navigate to the storage VM's storage list and see the OS path to the new storage. This helps in quickly setting up the new storage via fdisk and is also good for future reference if ev...
over 4 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

Push Notification Service Monitoring through IBM Cloud Sysdig

We want to monitor push notification service instance and the api endpoints, and currently there is no native IBM Solution which can monitor and send alerts to email DL. Request to support push notification service in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring,
over 4 years ago in  4 Delivered