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* IBM Cloud Ideas

A real-time civic issue reporting and intelligence system that enables citizens to report, track, and verify public infrastructure problems using geotagging, community validation, and live status updates.

The Problem Lens: Real-Time Public Intelligence System is a smart civic engagement platform designed to transform how citizens interact with local authorities for reporting and resolving urban issues. In many cities, citizens face daily challenges...
3 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Analytics Submitted

ibmcloud.com should have a login to IBM Cloud button

Previously there was a login to IBM Cloud button on the ibmcloud.com page, but now it has disappeared. I know the correct address for IBM Cloud is cloud.ibm.com, but tell that to the potential customers ;) To me the service name is IBM Cloud, not ...
3 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / UX and Console Submitted

Add pglogical extension Support to ICD for PostgreSQL

We would like to request official support for the pglogical extension in IBM’s PostgreSQL offering. Our goal is to set up logical replication for our PostgreSQL instance in the Frankfurt region to a location outside of Frankfurt, Madrid, and Paris...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Submitted

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...
7 days 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...
13 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...
16 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Key Protect Future consideration

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

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

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