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Need the statement of ‘No records’ for report mails, if there are no policy violations

At present, for policy violation report mails, we need to open the zip file attachment and then open the excel file to discover that there are no records in the excel file. Instead, it would be better to state in the mail itself like ‘No records’,...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support Under review

Local or Toll Free Number to contact IBM Cloud Support from the UK

Currently the only way to contact IBM Cloud directly via telephone is on the +1-866-403-7638 number which is Toll free from the US, but chargeable in the UK (and anywhere outside of the US I assume). If you have extended support calls and you are ...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support Future consideration

Request to improve the behavior of unsubscribing from IBMcloud notification emails

When you click the URL to cancel the notification email of IBMcloud, I want you to display a confirmation screen.
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support Future consideration

Make IBM Cloud CLI and API authorizations consistent

I usually use IBM Cloud CLI, and I am trying to use APIs for some specific commands I would like to run right from IBM i or AIX running in Power Virtual Server. Unfortunately I have found we need special authorities for APIs that should be simple....
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Planned for future release

Add pg_partman support in databases

As an IBM customer I have postgres workloads that run in other cloud environments relying on the pg_partman extension. I need pg_partman support in ibm databases in order to run these same workloads in IBM cloud.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Future consideration

add a command line timeout option when using putty and SU level access

Inactive sessions close off, which is fine, however when working with IBM support and multiple putty sessions are open its often difficult to keep them alive so adding the timeout option would alleviate this. we increase timeouts on IBM Brocade sw...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Under review

Add GPU profiles aligned to core watsonx.ai foundation models

Requesting 2 x NVIDIA A100, 4 x NVIDIA L40S GPU and/or 2 x NVIDIA H100 profiles. These would be aligned to llama-3-3-70b-instruct, presumably the most popular model available on watsonx.ai today. watsonx.ai FM hardware reqs here: https://www.ibm.c...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Planned for future release

PowerVS: Dashboard for VM update history

Currently, to check a VM’s update history, users must navigate to the Events tab and search through logs. This process can be cumbersome, and even with search functionality, it’s not always easy to retrieve all relevant entries. Additionally, the ...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Not under consideration

Documentation Improvement Request for VMware ESXi iSCSI MPIO Configuration

Real-life scenario: We deployed VMware vSphere ESXi on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and mounted IBM Cloud Block Storage via iSCSI for datastore usage. During the setup, we followed the official documentation for MPIO configuration. However, the in...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Templates & Best Practices Needs more information