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In-place upgrade to a new major version for MySQL.

In-place major version upgrade allows you to upgrade your deployment to the next new major version, eliminating the need to restore a backup into a new deployment. This approach maintains the same connection strings, without the need to reconfigur...
about 12 hours ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Submitted

Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces

A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Submitted

We should continue to support UKO

For customers using the orchestration features of the HPCS UKO plan, there is no replacement offered in IBM Cloud for the time after the HPCS sunset. The only replacement described in the documentation is the option to migrate to an on-prem produc...
9 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Key Protect Future consideration

Terraform language can be enahnced, to use the same IaC-code to build the infrastructure for a given cloud provider, where all the provider related can be traslated in the backgound (similar to JVM).

Hashcorp-product "Terraform", which is a powerfull IaC-tool/language to build the multi-cloud/hybrid infrastructure, which is in use by multiple organization, because of it multi-cloud support.
13 days ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Internal - normal Submitted

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...
29 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Under review

Four-Eyes Deletion Control for Critical IBM Cloud Services

IBM Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform where mission‑critical services are deployed and operated. A customer recently shared the following scenario: during periods of staff reduction or personnel transitions, there is a risk that a frustrated o...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security Needs more information

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

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 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Historical Project level resource usage data for IT budget planning

Requesting historical Resource Usage by Project , Service & User. Priority is to identify the most active projects to budget accordingly Current state: Current system shows monthly project statistics but lacks historical data SaaS services hav...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning Under review

Add product short names in the search bar assistant

In your web interfaces for support, you have useful search bars which allow to search for a product and offer completion suggestions. See attached screenshot for example. These bars, unfortunately, do not include usual short names such as "EWM" fo...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services Not under consideration

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