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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Not under consideration

OpenAPI definitions for all IBM Cloud services should be publicly available

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs?tab=api-docs Current OpenAPI definitions for IBM Cloud services are available at above page. Customers do not have access to collated GITHUB Repo where IBM Cloud maintains OpenAPI definition of all IBM CLoud services. ht...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Documentation 2 Future consideration

Synchronous mirroring over 2 locations in one IBM Cloud site for block data as a foundation for availability

Background Currently we running + 100 customers with one or several LPARS each (Power Server with IBMi). We would like to migrate to IBM Cloud. These customers run mainly their ERP system in IBMi. The ERP system acts like a business hub, with a lo...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Block Storage 1 Planned for future release

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"...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

PowerVS - FedRAMP Certification

FedRAMP is a U.S. government program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment and authorization for cloud products and services, ensuring federal agencies can securely adopt cloud technologies. We have a client who is intereste...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

AIX does not support Live Kernel Updates on PowerVS Private Cloud

AIX Live Kernel Updates (LKU) for IBM Power is a feature that allows system administrators to apply critical AIX security patches and kernel updates without requiring a reboot or causing downtime. This is particularly valuable for enterprise envir...
4 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Under review

Add Vitess as Product

Vitess is a mysql compatible scalable Cloudnative Database. As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database. Local tests show good performance and we would like to have...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 1 Not under consideration

Option to adjust max_prepared_stmt_count in MySQL ICD

As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database.To compensate for higher latency in cloud database and to further scale the performance we increase connections.The data...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

The ability to natively and privately connect from Code Engine to IBM Cloud VPC resources (e.g. Virtual Servers) without going through Satellite Connector, VPN tunnel or over a public endpoint

This would be useful for all customers who want to integrate Code Engine with their existing VPC resources. It would greatly enhance the use cases covered by Code Engine, and competitively, would provide a feature that is built-in on other cloud p...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration