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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
3 months ago in Compliance 6 Future consideration

Default OpenShift version for `ibmcloud oc cluster create`

Clusters created from the web ui OpenShift panel default to the "default" OpenShift version. But the cli defaults `ibmcloud oc cluster create` created clusters to vanilla k8s versions as though they were created through the ibmcloud ks cluster cre...
4 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 3 Needs more information

End of LIfe and End of support extension notification

Recently we noticed that Red hat openshift version 4.10 End of life date was set as nov 30th 2023 but suddenly without an intimation it was changed to Jan 2024.we are setting strict upgrade target dates to our clients and when suddenly a change in...
7 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 1 Planned for future release

Ticket support - expand "Text area" with new row

Expand the “Text Area” "Add Comment here" dedicated to comments when responding to tickets to support.Only 4 lines are currently displayed
about 1 month ago in Support 0 Under review

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
8 months ago in Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Under review

Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
9 months ago in Bare Metal 1

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Account Management 4 Not under consideration

Improve search UI for VSIs

Cadence design has a significant number of VSIs and the search tool on the UI does not work beyond 200 VSIs. This is extremely frustrating to to the customer and makes working in the portal difficult and time consuming.
about 1 month ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Under review

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
7 months ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration