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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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PowerVS - FedRAMP Certification

FedRAMP is a U.S. government program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment and authorization for cloud products and services, ensuring federal agencies can securely adopt cloud technologies. We have a client who is intereste...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Under review

Reclaim Improvements

Improvement to reclaim process to remove production IP's earlier in the reclaim process. Potential solutions are to reorder the steps a reclaim occurs in, or to add an account specific flag that allows some customers to skip the maintenance flag w...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 0 Needs more information

Microsoft Teams Template for IBM Cloud Logs Event Notifications

Can you please enhance the IBM Cloud Event Notifications for Microsoft Teams Template for IBM Cloud Logs Event Notifications as it is not available in Templates for Event Notifications
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Integration 0 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...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Synchronize Trusted Profiles acess with Red Hat OpenShift clusters access

Currently, access to Red Hat OpenShift on IBM clusters is synchronized with IBM Cloud IAM users. This allows any person invited to join the account or has an existing IAM user to log in to OCP clusters. This approach doesn't scale since it require...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

We need a REST and CLI interface to generate API keys for the account owner and other functional/service IDs.

I am part of a team that manages over 1 hundred IBM Cloud accounts and counting. We have automated all the steps of configuring a new account, e.g., resource groups, access groups, access policies, inviting users. But creating an API key requires ...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 4 Not under consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Future consideration

Need to have PostgreSQL multi-line audit logs formatted to mono-line in IBM Cloud logs / LogAnalysis

As title, Multi-line logs for postgreSQL are useless with Logstash for Guardium Data Protection using Universal connector.
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Planned for future release

Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration