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Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Not under consideration

Enable Cloudflare API Shield functionality in IBM Internet Services

Cloudflare has a suite of Enterprise options for API protection through their API Shield offering (https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/api-shield/). It would be good to have these options through IBM Internet Services as well.
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network Under review

AI-Powered Skill & Mentor Discovery for IBM Cloud Learners

Many beginners exploring IBM Cloud struggle to identify the right learning path and mentors based on their current skill level. An AI-driven skill discovery and mentor recommendation feature could bridge this gap. Problem Statement Cloud learners ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning Future consideration

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

Bulk update storage tiers for all volumes attached to a single VM

Currently, we can change the storage tier for volumes in PowerVS via the IBM Cloud Web UI or CLI. However, this must be done individually for each volume. IBM i VMs typically have a large number of volumes to ensure optimal I/O performance. As a r...
4 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud Submitted

Confirmation IPL Mode on Cloud COnsole

We can confirm IPL mode on IBM i OS (System Value) and DST/SST. However it is unable to confirm it on IBM Cloud Console although we can change it. As we can not confirm it before IPL from shutdown status, It is useful if we can confirm it before I...
4 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud Submitted

Proposal: Process Improvement for Floating IP Confirmation During VSI Deprovisioning

Background In IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment, a Floating IP is typically used to enable external access to a Virtual Server Instance (VSI).Since Floating IPs can be detached and reused across multiple resources, they provide f...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers Under review

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Future consideration

Enable Resource Group label on Redis and Mysql alerts configuration in sysdig

we have resource group scope in alert configurations of mongodb and postgresql under sysdig instance. the same we are expecting for redis and mysql which is not there currently. why we need it is we want segregate the env wise alerts in a single p...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Under review

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