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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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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...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 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 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Log routing feature request to support multiple target simialr to Activity tracking routing

IBM cloud Log Routing can be routed to only single target which is IBM Cloud Log instance. User of member account aren't allowed to create additional target for their business use-case. Support Case Link : https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/case...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 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...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network 0 Not under consideration

Create "HandsOn Interactive" Training Using IBM Cloud

Some users learn faster with "Hands On" Learning, benefitting New Users, Inexperienced Users, Novices, College Students, New Enterprise users, etc... Example: refer too Quantum Enigna Labs
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Templates & Best Practices 1 Not under consideration

Reclaim Improvements

Improvement to reclaim process to remove production IP's earlier in the reclaim process. Potential solutions are to reorder the steps a reclaim occurs in, or to add an account specific flag that allows some customers to skip the maintenance flag w...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 0 Needs more information

Add pg_cron extension to PostgreSQL

We have the need for running regular maintenance and auditing jobs against our Postgres infrastructure. For example, in Postgres, we have some applications with large, highly volatile tables. As is typical in Postgres, this can cause autovacuum to...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

We need a REST and CLI interface to generate API keys for the account owner and other functional/service IDs.

I am part of a team that manages over 1 hundred IBM Cloud accounts and counting. We have automated all the steps of configuring a new account, e.g., resource groups, access groups, access policies, inviting users. But creating an API key requires ...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 4 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Future consideration

Cloud Monitoring private endpoints

In each Cloud Monitoring dashboard, we have seen a switch to enable public access to the dashboard. Convenient as it is, we find it to be a "unsecure" as anyone with the link could access our data. Is it possible to make use of "private endpoints"...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review