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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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Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
2 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Capture and Export VMs in PowerVS - status progress

Problem: Capture and Export just show "running" during execution ( ibmcloud pi job ls ) Proposed: adding a % of progress can be useful for any long-running tasks with unpredictable end. End comes out of the blue.
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

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...
28 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 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...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 0 Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future 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 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Functionality already exists

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration