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Native IPv6 Support for VPC Virtual Server Instances (VSIs)

1. Real-Life Scenario & Problem Statement: Our organization is currently deploying a globally distributed application that requires direct end-to-end connectivity for millions of edge devices. In our current IBM Cloud VPC setup, we are restric...
1 day ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Submitted

Four-Eyes Deletion Control for Critical IBM Cloud Services

IBM Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform where mission‑critical services are deployed and operated. A customer recently shared the following scenario: during periods of staff reduction or personnel transitions, there is a risk that a frustrated o...
1 day ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 0 Submitted

Improve Slack Notifications to Avoid the 3,000‑Character Text Object Limit

I would like to request improvements to Slack notifications used as the distribution list for IBM Cloud account alerts, so that they do not hit Slack’s 3,000‑character limit for text objects. Please enhance the system to either split long notifica...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Under review

Allow Customers to Pin Minor Fixpack Version in Openshift in IBM Cloud Satellite

When you upgrade Openshift in IBM Cloud Satellite, the latest fixpack is always applied and the customer has no way to 'pin' or specify the minor fixpack version fixpack version. This could be a problem for us because we generally upgrade our nonp...
21 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Officially support and document existing feature to protect LBs from auto deletion by service annotation

We got following response from support: "As far as creating a new annotation to disable deletion of the associated VPC LB resource, that support has already been done. There is an undocumented annotation that has already been created. This annotat...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Control the apply timing of new CIS WAF rules

The release of new rules in the CIS WAF Managed Ruleset resulted in blocking data transmission for business operations. Since the WAF Managed Ruleset follows Cloudflare’s releases, if operators do not override the rules, they will automatically sw...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Content Delivery Network (CDN) 0 Under review

Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spend...
7 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Submitted

Create a couple of VSIs, one with IBM i, and one with AIX for public access with self learning purposes

For training purposes in our Telegram group "IBM i en Español" I have a free hosted IBM i LPAR in Mexico so all users can ask for access and test their programs, refresh their knowledge or follow tutorials to learn about this amazing OS. Pub400.co...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 5 Not under consideration

Historical Project level resource usage data for IT budget planning

Requesting historical Resource Usage by Project , Service & User. Priority is to identify the most active projects to budget accordingly Current state: Current system shows monthly project statistics but lacks historical data SaaS services hav...
13 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 0 Under review

Add product short names in the search bar assistant

In your web interfaces for support, you have useful search bars which allow to search for a product and offer completion suggestions. See attached screenshot for example. These bars, unfortunately, do not include usual short names such as "EWM" fo...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration