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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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Bluemix support for new Customer trial enabled to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services

To support high growth BP acceleration initiative to achieve $425M in WCP revenue from ISV/SI partners we need Bluemix offering to support 30-60 day trial for new acquisition customers that allows them to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services. To...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Partner Onboarding 18 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Cloud Databases Redis to use public certificates instead os self-signed certificates

Today, IBM Cloud Databases Redis instances uses self-signed certificates. After provisioning an instance, customer have a extra step to download certificates and configure them on backend systems to allow communication. This is cumbersome, since o...
5 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

support TLS termination via service annotation

i want to be able to add TLS certificate annotation to a service and that the listener will be created as HTTPS protocol instead of TCP, and have a certificate from the secret manager attached to it.
21 days ago in Load Balancer 0 Under review

Enable Cloud Logs agent on SUSE & Power VS servers

We currently do not have a native SUSE or PowrVS agent. Best practice for those environments is to have a supported log agent in the environment and route the logs through it. The customer's requesting to have IBM Cloud Logs enabled on SUSE & ...
22 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Make Transit Gateways real-time traffic metrics available to users of IBM Cloud

Nowadays, the Transit Gateways (TGW) which are used to receive Direct Link traffic can measure the traffic but right now there’s no feature in the IBM Cloud platform that allows users to visualize that metric in real-time. Some numbers can be seen...
3 months ago in Direct Link 1 Future consideration

PowerVS Self service DPO on dedicated hosts

For Power Virtual Server Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO) function. DPO is a hypervisor function for on-prem that is initiated from the Hardware Management Console (HMC). DPO rearranges logical partition processors and memory on the system to impr...
5 months ago in Power 0 Planned for future release

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0 I want to update my VG/CG after its created with terraform for GRS. This feature does not exists as of now. Also, power volume creation should have an attri...
26 days ago in Power 0 Under review

IAM VPC endpoint at JP-TOK region

IBM sold us the idea of having private cloud with no outbound, but this does not applicable without IAM VPC endpoint in JP-TOK region. Please make it possible.
about 1 month ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Planned for future release

Using AI to address common problems with plasmapheresis machines could enhance both the detection and resolution of issues

Here are the main problems and how AI could potentially fix them: 1. Clogging or Blockages AI Solution: AI could monitor real-time data from pressure sensors and flow rates, identifying deviations that indicate a blockage or clog. Machine learning...
about 1 month ago in Analytics 1 Not under consideration