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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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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.

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

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Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisioning process to eliminate the occurrence of duplicate IP assignments.

While provisioning RDCP UAT Open Shift cluster, one of the primary IP from a Primary VLAN got auto assigned which caused outage in the PROD environment due to IP conflict. Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisionin...
about 1 year ago in Subnets / IPs 7 Not under consideration

Provide a reliable method to identify instance storage disks attached to VSIs on the disk driver level.

Identifying instance storage disks attached to VSIs in IBM Cloud is currently not straightforward on the disk driver level. The suggested solutions from IBM all have their drawbacks and are not reliable from a long-term perspective. The solutions ...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Version WPAR

WPAR is a supported product from Power Systems brand. With WPAR, client can run multiple virtual LPARs within an LPAR. It's like running containers within a VM. Currently all WPARs ( vritual lpars ) within an LPAR must be at the same level. In pre...
over 1 year ago in Power 1 Not under consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud 2FA Prompt Less Frequently

The current implementation of 2FA prompting is inconsistent and regularly prompts too frequently (sometimes as little as < ten minutes). Requesting a prompt after an hour seems more appropriate.
about 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration

Fraud Detection Using Advanced Machine Learning For E-Commerce And Financial Services

How many of you refrained from online shopping during the pandemic? No, every one of us preferred shopping for clothes, electronics, household items, groceries, and everything using mobile or the web. Digital fraud on the banking and financial ser...
over 2 years ago in Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Add data usage monthly/daily reports or volumes in IBM Cloud Secure Gateways

i could see there is a limitation of the IBM Secure gateway product. By default secure gateways should give below details, so that all the support teams can proactively take the corrective action to avoid any service outage to the business. 1. how...
over 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting just like you can for devices. It makes it easy for reporting purposes to management. Now the process requires using the slcli and piecing together the disjo...
over 4 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Alerts for space consumed in file systems

It would be very useful to be able to receive alerts when the use of a file storage exceeds a quota set by the user. Currently you can receive alarms for Snapshots capacity, it would be equally useful to receive these types of alerts for the gener...
over 4 years ago in File Storage 0 Not under consideration