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Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
5 days ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 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...
11 days ago in Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
4 months ago in Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

DB2 on Cloud : HADR synchronization NEARSYNC mode

In DB2OC 11.5, with a DB in HADR there is only one syncrhonization mode between the primary and replicated node : SYNC mode. Would be interesting to have the same options as we have in DB2 classic (SYNC, NEARSYNC, ASYNC, SUPERASYNC) See details be...
3 months ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Use regex instead of prefix for COS type event subscription

When creating a new event subscription of type COS: we can use prefix for files to trigger actions. It would be more useful to use regex instead of (or in addition to) prefix. It would allow me to decrease the number of event subscription that I n...
12 days ago in Containers 1 Under review

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
3 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

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...
25 days ago in Bare Metal 0 Needs more information

Fluentd plugin for forwarding logs to Cloud logs

We have been used fluentd logdna plugin in order to output logs to Log Analysis from fluentd.Migrating to Cloud Logs, we would like you to release a fluentd plugin for Cloud Logs which has same function as logdna plugin. https://www.fluentd.org/pl...
3 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 1 Needs more information

Power infrastructure instances and volumes tagging possibility

It would be useful to have a possibility of tagging IBM Cloud Power service instances and Storage volumes for more detailed resource accounting. By the moment it's only possible to put tags on the whole workspace, but it's impossible to determine ...
2 months ago in Power 0 Planned for future release

Implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal - Security & Compliance Center

Please implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal.IBM SCC v2 Scanning portal have missing the controls as listed below. It is important to have them added to be in alignment with the latest CIS Benchmark. Also, for the p...
over 1 year ago in Security 5 Planned for future release