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Status Under review
Workspace * IBM Cloud Ideas
Categories Power
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2026

Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spending a lot of time waiting for 1-by-1 base image import from COS to image catalog and then again queuing during captured vm import from COS to image catalog.

Such strict limitation is unexpected and is not on par with other cloud platform experience.

Idea priority High
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool