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Make Transit Gateways real-time traffic metrics available to users of IBM Cloud

Nowadays, the Transit Gateways (TGW) which are used to receive Direct Link traffic can measure the traffic but right now there’s no feature in the IBM Cloud platform that allows users to visualize that metric in real-time. Some numbers can be seen...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Direct Link 1 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...
12 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Under review

End of LIfe and End of support extension notification

Recently we noticed that Red hat openshift version 4.10 End of life date was set as nov 30th 2023 but suddenly without an intimation it was changed to Jan 2024.we are setting strict upgrade target dates to our clients and when suddenly a change in...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 1 Planned for future release

Protect option on specific PowerVS VSIs

Please, add a checkbox to lock unexpected VSI removal. We are cloning PowerVS VSIs for test purposes with a schedulled task/job, and our concern is we could delete by error the production system. My request: A mechanism to lock VSIs manually, so w...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Planned for future release

Native Geometric Benchmark for Quantum Processors

1.The area law provides a universal, hardware-agnostic metric for multi-mode entanglement fidelity. Current IBM Quantum systems (e.g., ibm_sherbrooke, ibm_brisbane) achieve >99% two-qubit gate fidelity, yet multi-mode GHZ fidelity decays rapidl...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 1 Not under consideration

Notification of change in log retention period

Per checking audit log on portal, the retention period is infinite. I want to be notified when the log retention period is changed.I would like users to be able to check the log retention period.
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compute 0 Under review

Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Block Storage 1 Planned for future release

Quantum-Cognitive Autonomous Cloud Fabric (Q-CACF): AI-Driven Multi-Cloud, Edge, and Quantum Orchestration Platform with Self-Trust, Compliance, and Dynamic Data Gravity Balancing

The invention provides an AI-driven, quantum-assisted multi-cloud orchestration fabric that autonomously manages workload placement, trust verification, data movement, and policy governance across heterogeneous environments including public, priva...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 7 Not under consideration

Limitation of log message characters in email alerts

Only 1000 characters from log message displayed in email alerts due to the data size limitation "data.log_example" data size to be increased to 5000 to display meaningful log messages in the email alerts.
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Future consideration