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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

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

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
27 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Add GPU profiles aligned to core watsonx.ai foundation models

Requesting 2 x NVIDIA A100, 4 x NVIDIA L40S GPU and/or 2 x NVIDIA H100 profiles. These would be aligned to llama-3-3-70b-instruct, presumably the most popular model available on watsonx.ai today. watsonx.ai FM hardware reqs here: https://www.ibm.c...
29 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Billing notifications - more info

Hi, Here is a feature suggestion about billing. We often receive a message "10 Day Disconnection Notice" even though auto-pay is enabled. Sometimes this is unexpected. Other times it may be a genuine problem with the payment method. What could be ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Under review

Electro thermal generation systems on SuperMUC cooling system.

Hi, I recently watched a video about the SuperMUC supercomputer and was really impressed by how IBM efficiently cools it using cold water. What truly caught my attention was how the excess heat is repurposed to supply hot water to nearby buildings...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 1 Not under consideration

Integrating Multiple Backup Policies with Event Notifications

I have multiple backup jobs in multiple regions (more than 1 in same region also). How can I integrate these with single event notifications instance. I know, only one backup policy can be attached to event notifications instance. I do not want to...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Under review

Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format

Currently IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) providing an option to download in JSON log format. Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format. Let users decide and select which fo...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Integrate Payment Portal with IBM Login Portal

At present, IBM users are forced to log into an entirely separate payment portal when attempting to remit payment for an invoice: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/invoices/welcome That disconnect doesn't make much sense from a developer's (or ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) should be able to have multiple instances open at the same time

IBM Cloud Monitoring (Sysdig) offers a completely broken experience when more than one instance is opened at the same time in the same browser session. This is unworkable for users who have separate monitoring instances per environment. IBM Cloud ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Create a curl-based script to port IBM Cloud CLI to IBM i and AIX

We want to automate some IBM i and AIX tasks, specially for DR purposes: * GRS operation: Verify, run actions ...* Export an LPAR using scripts , for backup purposes* Take a Snapshot* Get the web-console URL* Retrieve status and values from within...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Under review