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ibmcloud.com should have a login to IBM Cloud button

Previously there was a login to IBM Cloud button on the ibmcloud.com page, but now it has disappeared. I know the correct address for IBM Cloud is cloud.ibm.com, but tell that to the potential customers ;) To me the service name is IBM Cloud, not ...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / UX and Console 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 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services / Partner Onboarding Not under consideration

Add pglogical extension Support to ICD for PostgreSQL

We would like to request official support for the pglogical extension in IBM’s PostgreSQL offering. Our goal is to set up logical replication for our PostgreSQL instance in the Frankfurt region to a location outside of Frankfurt, Madrid, and Paris...
24 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

In-place upgrade to a new major version for MySQL.

In-place major version upgrade allows you to upgrade your deployment to the next new major version, eliminating the need to restore a backup into a new deployment. This approach maintains the same connection strings, without the need to reconfigur...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager Future consideration

Replacement for F5 Big-IP offerings due to security breach

On October 15, 2025, F5 disclosed that a "highly sophisticated" nation-state actor had breached its internal systems, stealing portions of its BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities.Since then, we as managed service p...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer Under review

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 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security Planned for future release

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

Terraform language can be enahnced, to use the same IaC-code to build the infrastructure for a given cloud provider, where all the provider related can be traslated in the backgound (similar to JVM).

Hashcorp-product "Terraform", which is a powerfull IaC-tool/language to build the multi-cloud/hybrid infrastructure, which is in use by multiple organization, because of it multi-cloud support.
about 1 month ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Internal - normal Submitted

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