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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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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.

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

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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
9 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Increase VPC Remote Security Group Limit

Within your VPC, there are two ways to grant and allow network traffic: Security Groups (SG) and Access Control Lists (ACL). We prefer to use the SGs because they are stateless and their use results in fewer rules which makes understanding our sec...
12 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

IPv6 support in IBM Cloud VPC and services (like ROKS)

IPv6 is the standard for address space finalized a long time ago. Additionally, services on top of IPv6 infrastructure (for our need, OpenShift in this case) now support IPv6 addressing and SDN as of 2021. IBM Cloud VPC should support IPv6 at leas...
2 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Under review

Service tags for Security Groups and ACLs

It would be very helpful if we could work with service tags for the SG and ACL definitions. For example, for Internet traffic, Zones, IBM Cloud Services, Cloudflare, etc. This would make manual and static maintenance of long lists of IPs in the SG...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

New profile High memory with low number of processors

Is there a VPC profile that has a large amount of RAM, but a low number of processors. e.g.:Processors -> 12Memory -> 512GB (minimum)I see the closest one in London is ux2d-16x448.... but that does not have enough memory for the Siemens/Tata...
6 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration

Onboarding app for new Dedicated customers

CURRENT: Customer is required to fill out a spreadsheet with VPN configuration parameters. This is time consuming and prone to errors as there are no checks on the data entered until it is received by a network engineer. PROPOSAL: Onboarding...
over 7 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Not under consideration