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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

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...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Under review

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

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas Future consideration

CodeEngine to work with Signed images

Today, CodeEngine works with "un-signed" images. It would be very helpful if Code Engine could understand signed images and be able to work with it by verifying. For now, we can consider "skopeo" as a signing utility. Users could provide the publi...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers Future consideration

AWS PrivateLink capability

We would like to share a need for AWS Private Link in order to have possibility to switch from Data Link Classic into new Data Link. Currently we use Data Link Classic in order pull data from my organization AWS s3 bucket ( assume role), current s...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Network (VPN) Under review

Integrating Multiple Backup Policies with Event Notifications

I have multiple backup jobs in multiple regions (more than 1 in same region also). How can I integrate these with single event notifications instance. I know, only one backup policy can be attached to event notifications instance. I do not want to...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Functionality already exists