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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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Synchronize Trusted Profiles acess with Red Hat OpenShift clusters access

Currently, access to Red Hat OpenShift on IBM clusters is synchronized with IBM Cloud IAM users. This allows any person invited to join the account or has an existing IAM user to log in to OCP clusters. This approach doesn't scale since it require...
about 9 hours ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
5 days ago in Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Capture and Export VMs in PowerVS - status progress

Problem: Capture and Export just show "running" during execution ( ibmcloud pi job ls ) Proposed: adding a % of progress can be useful for any long-running tasks with unpredictable end. End comes out of the blue.
17 days ago in Power 0 Under review

PowerVS traffic deny rule (or something like that) between subnets in the same Workspace.

Good-afternoon, Use case: Production Workspace - WSPRD 1 IBM i LPAR - IBMiPRD 3 Cores 128 GB Memory 11TB of Storage ============================= DR Workspace - WSDR 2 IBM i LPARs - IBMiDR and IBMiQA SPP with 3 Cores IBMiDR 0.25 Cores 32 GB Memory...
24 days ago in Virtual Servers 0

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
30 days ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
about 1 month ago in Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Use regex instead of prefix for COS type event subscription

When creating a new event subscription of type COS: we can use prefix for files to trigger actions. It would be more useful to use regex instead of (or in addition to) prefix. It would allow me to decrease the number of event subscription that I n...
about 1 month ago in Containers 1 Under review

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.
about 2 months 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 & ...
about 2 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Reclaim Improvements

Improvement to reclaim process to remove production IP's earlier in the reclaim process. Potential solutions are to reorder the steps a reclaim occurs in, or to add an account specific flag that allows some customers to skip the maintenance flag w...
about 2 months ago in Bare Metal 0 Needs more information