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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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Allow all controls from a security compliance profile to have notification

Our cloud environment requires to be compliant based on the CIS profile. This means that after a security and compliance scan we need to be notified if any non-compliant controls have been found. This is required also by the auditor to prove that ...
13 days ago in Compliance 0 Under review

PowerVS Self service DPO on dedicated hosts

For Power Virtual Server Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO) function. DPO is a hypervisor function for on-prem that is initiated from the Hardware Management Console (HMC). DPO rearranges logical partition processors and memory on the system to impr...
2 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration

Implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal - Security & Compliance Center

Please implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal.IBM SCC v2 Scanning portal have missing the controls as listed below. It is important to have them added to be in alignment with the latest CIS Benchmark. Also, for the p...
over 1 year ago in Security 5 Future consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
18 days ago in Billing 0 Under review
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Bluemix support for new Customer trial enabled to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services

To support high growth BP acceleration initiative to achieve $425M in WCP revenue from ISV/SI partners we need Bluemix offering to support 30-60 day trial for new acquisition customers that allows them to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services. To...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Partner Onboarding 18 Not under consideration

Restricted write access on OpenShift secrets

For pre-prod environments in OpenShift clusters like SIT, NFT - developers will be having read-write access across all Kubernetes services like deployments, statefulsets, configmap, daemonset, secrets. Unplanned changes to secrets causing issues o...
about 1 month ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
9 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Classic infrastructure VLANs - trunk several servers at a time

When trunking a VLAN to servers in classic infra, the servers choice is currently a radio button, which forces to trunk them one by one. It would be nice if it was a checkboxes list instead of radio buttons, alowwing to select several servers in o...
11 months ago in Network 0 Not under consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
12 months ago in Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

Add pg_cron extension to PostgreSQL

We have the need for running regular maintenance and auditing jobs against our Postgres infrastructure. For example, in Postgres, we have some applications with large, highly volatile tables. As is typical in Postgres, this can cause autovacuum to...
5 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration