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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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Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
over 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Make optional to force new revision on app update in Code Engine CLI

In Toolchain pipelines, the IBM CLI and Code Engine plugin is extensively used for creating and updating apps and jobs on Code Engine projects. However, since version 1.15.0 of the Code Engine plugin, a new revision is always forced even if there ...
about 3 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

Enable PodNodeSelector admission controller plugin

Hello, In some case, we need to dedicate some worker nodes to a specific workload. It can do easily by defining a node selector policy on the namespace and each pods deploy in this namespace will inherited of this policy. But to work, it's nece...
about 3 years ago in Containers 0 Future consideration

get Pods, Namespaces, Nodes... info from the IBM Cloud Kubernetes API

from the IBM Cloud API for Kubernetes the documentation of which is here: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/kubernetes we get info about the Clusters but not about pods, namespace and so on. The idea here is to enhance this IBM Cloud API to provide th...
about 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Shell API

IBM Cloud Shell API needs to exist! I want to be able to run commands for my command that are best run through the cli. Imagine if I have an application that can make API calls to cloud shell to run those commands on my account instead of having t...
over 3 years ago in CLI 3 Future consideration

Master account owner role

I have had multiple interaction with support where the master account owner was required even when I have full right on everything else. Most often it was to disable the MFA on a specific user that it was required to reach out to the master accoun...
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Make DS8K storage available in IBM PowerVS to provide organizations with high-performance storage options for their workloads.

It is useful because DS8K storage offers high-performance and reliability features that can benefit organizations with demanding workloads. Organizations using IBM PowerVS would benefit from this availability as it provides them with a storage opt...
10 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects

Disable COS Instance Deletion if it has any Buckets/Objects. We can delete the COS Instances even if it has child resources like Buckets and Objects in it. This is really a threat to the IBM Cloud COS. If a user gains access and simply click on De...
10 months ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Future consideration

Satellite storage API support for expansion of COS cluster

Problem summary: Satellite storage APIs support registering desired storage configuration at the time of cluster creation. If however there is a need to add more storage capacity to a cluster then there is no indication to the service requesting t...
over 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
over 3 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration