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Implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal - Security & Compliance Center

Please implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal.IBM SCC v2 Scanning portal have missing the controls as listed below. It is important to have them added to be in alignment with the latest CIS Benchmark. Also, for the p...
about 1 year ago in Security 4 Future consideration

Option to disable DA upgrade button

A Deployable Architecture supports Day 1 deployment patterns but not upgrade scenarios. We need a programmatic way to disable the upgrade button on the UI. Not all DAs support the full operational lifecycle. There is a valid pattern of usage where...
24 days ago in UX and Console 0 Future consideration

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
8 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Classic infrastructure VLANs - trunk several servers at a time

When trunking a VLAN to servers in classic infra, the servers choice is currently a radio button, which forces to trunk them one by one. It would be nice if it was a checkboxes list instead of radio buttons, alowwing to select several servers in o...
10 months ago in Network 0 Future consideration

The ability to natively and privately connect from Code Engine to IBM Cloud VPC resources (e.g. Virtual Servers) without going through Satellite Connector, VPN tunnel or over a public endpoint

This would be useful for all customers who want to integrate Code Engine with their existing VPC resources. It would greatly enhance the use cases covered by Code Engine, and competitively, would provide a feature that is built-in on other cloud p...
3 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
11 months ago in Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
4 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
8 months ago in Security 1 Future consideration

Feature requests for IBM Transit Gateway Route Tables.

Proposed feature: Like the AWS implementation ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/tgw-route-tables.html ), users can define the Transit Gateway Route Table (TGRT) per connection. In the example below, customer-1’s TGRT can see the route t...
about 1 month ago in Network 0 Future consideration

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration