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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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Service tags for Security Groups and ACLs

It would be very helpful if we could work with service tags for the SG and ACL definitions. For example, for Internet traffic, Zones, IBM Cloud Services, Cloudflare, etc. This would make manual and static maintenance of long lists of IPs in the SG...
almost 2 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

CCF ask for VCF enhancement - Launchpad / parallel cluster 2x or more spin-Up process

DR Requirement for VMC on AWS migration to IBM Cloud VCF on VPC
6 months ago in VMware Solutions 0 Under review

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workload on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift AI and IBM Watsonx workloads on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL Disaggregated Memory by using orchestrated 5G/6G slicing for AI workloads on Distributed cloud and Cloud satellite Please Note: I re- wri...
6 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Redesign and Deployment of Red Hat Openshift on IBM Cloud Satellite based on CXL disaggregated memory

This idea is important because of the following: 1- For Openshift AI: A- This idea will efficiently manage, control and deployment the Generative AI LLMs Models, RAGs, Knowledge graphs between the cloud and on-premise data centers. B- This idea wi...
6 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring. currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
almost 3 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes - vpc through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes for VPC in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring.currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
almost 3 years ago in  5 Functionality already exists

AppID User API Query based on Date Created

We currently query the AppID User Management APIs to get a list of users to then write to our database. As there is not a delta field available we have to load all of the user data everyday. Instead I'd like to query for new users based on date cr...
over 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

Reduce need to re authenticate when 2 factor is enabled

We are using 2 factor authentication to sign in to IBMs cloud. This is enabled both for the web ui and for the cli. Our team uses an authenticator app for the second factor. This authentication setup requires re-authentication too often. I am unsu...
over 2 years ago in Account Management 1 Not under consideration

Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
over 3 years ago in Billing 2 Planned for future release