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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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