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Bluemix support for new Customer trial enabled to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services

To support high growth BP acceleration initiative to achieve $425M in WCP revenue from ISV/SI partners we need Bluemix offering to support 30-60 day trial for new acquisition customers that allows them to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services. To...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services / Partner Onboarding Not under consideration

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager Future consideration

Replacement for F5 Big-IP offerings due to security breach

On October 15, 2025, F5 disclosed that a "highly sophisticated" nation-state actor had breached its internal systems, stealing portions of its BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities.Since then, we as managed service p...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer Under review

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

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security Planned for future release

Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Future consideration

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

Separate Alert resolution entry in the IBM Cloud Logs Alert summary dashboard

In the current state the IBM Cloud Logs "Alert summary" dashboard only shows that alert has been triggered regardless if it the alert is really triggered or if the alert has been resolved by an user. This can cause confusion amongst the users who ...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Future consideration

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