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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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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Obtain FedRamp certification for IBM PowerVS to comply with the rigorous security standards defined by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRamp).

It is useful because achieving FedRamp certification ensures that organizations using IBM PowerVS meet the stringent security requirements defined by FedRamp, allowing them to work with federal government agencies and handle sensitive data securel...
11 months ago in Power 0 Planned for future release

Attain FISMA compliance in IBM PowerVS to meet the security requirements mandated by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

It is useful because achieving FISMA compliance ensures that organizations using IBM PowerVS meet the security standards and controls mandated by FISMA, protecting sensitive information, and meeting regulatory requirements. Organizations operating...
11 months ago in Power 0 Planned for future release

Availability of Ubuntu images with GPU drivers

Can the cloud virtualization team put out an OS image of Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 with the GPU drivers installed, so that one can start the VM and the GPU just works? That would be of immense helps for customers - currently it takes some trial and er...
about 1 year ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

Detailed messages when storage runs out of ports

I had a recent issue when the Tier 3 port definitions reached their maximum number, so every deployment just went to error state - no messages and no status updates on the state of the Data Centre. Suggest better error capture and alerting around ...
over 3 years ago in  1 Planned for future release

Ubuntu20 support for classic infrastructure

Recently we got email about EOL for Ubuntu16. So the only option will be Ubuntu18 soon. We need to resetup plenty of servers, so it would be great to go with Ubuntu20 at once
almost 4 years ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

Pipeline integration when a Git Release

It would be nice if we could launch a CI pipeline when a Release/Tag event happens in your Git repository
over 4 years ago in  0 Planned for future release

Multiple selection of components on IBM Cloud Status.

Current items have only one component field. Some items have multiple services/components affected but we can not filter them by component field. (See attached file for details) We request that items can have multiple component fields so that we c...
over 5 years ago in  1 Planned for future release