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Improve Slack Notifications to Avoid the 3,000‑Character Text Object Limit

I would like to request improvements to Slack notifications used as the distribution list for IBM Cloud account alerts, so that they do not hit Slack’s 3,000‑character limit for text objects. Please enhance the system to either split long notifica...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management Under review

Control the apply timing of new CIS WAF rules

The release of new rules in the CIS WAF Managed Ruleset resulted in blocking data transmission for business operations. Since the WAF Managed Ruleset follows Cloudflare’s releases, if operators do not override the rules, they will automatically sw...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Content Delivery Network (CDN) Under review

Native IPv6 Support for VPC Virtual Server Instances (VSIs)

1. Real-Life Scenario & Problem Statement: Our organization is currently deploying a globally distributed application that requires direct end-to-end connectivity for millions of edge devices. In our current IBM Cloud VPC setup, we are restric...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Under review

Officially support and document existing feature to protect LBs from auto deletion by service annotation

We got following response from support: "As far as creating a new annotation to disable deletion of the associated VPC LB resource, that support has already been done. There is an undocumented annotation that has already been created. This annotat...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

Allow Customers to Pin Minor Fixpack Version in Openshift in IBM Cloud Satellite

When you upgrade Openshift in IBM Cloud Satellite, the latest fixpack is always applied and the customer has no way to 'pin' or specify the minor fixpack version fixpack version. This could be a problem for us because we generally upgrade our nonp...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

Replacement for F5 Big-IP offerings due to security breach

On October 15, 2025, F5 disclosed that a "highly sophisticated" nation-state actor had breached its internal systems, stealing portions of its BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities.Since then, we as managed service p...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer Under review

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Show more util metrics in cloud monitoring about the use of the File Storage

Hello, now, in cloud monitoring, we can see only metrics for read and write operations, but we think that that other operations, like delete, open, etc, are important to know the activity of the file share. We have several FS with a few RW operati...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Under review

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 spend...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Logical Replication with copy data in PostgreSQL 15

We would like to request support and clarification regarding logical replication behavior in PostgreSQL 15 on IBM Cloud. Currently, in IBM Cloud–managed PostgreSQL 15, logical replication with copy_data = true is not supported, This limitation cre...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

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