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Enable statistics for Virtual private endpoint gateways

Currently the only visible metrics that is available for VPE gateways are GIGABYTE_TRANSMITTED and INSTANCE_HOUR present in the billing usage overview. As the VPE gateways are becoming common requirement for many services present on IBM Cloud it w...
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Submitted

Expand the supported version skew between the control plane and worker nodes.

Upgrading worker node versions in ROKS requires substantial operational effort.OpenShift supports an N-2 version skew, and we would like IBM Cloud ROKS to support the same level of version skew. (IBM Cloud ROKS supports only an N‑1 version skew no...
26 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

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...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 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...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Content Delivery Network (CDN) Under review

Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces

A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 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...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

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...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

We should continue to support UKO

For customers using the orchestration features of the HPCS UKO plan, there is no replacement offered in IBM Cloud for the time after the HPCS sunset. The only replacement described in the documentation is the option to migrate to an on-prem produc...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Key Protect Future consideration

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