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Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
12 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 0 Under review

Resource Access Report at Resource Group Level

We need to periodically answer the question asked by auditors "who has change level access to the production environment?" We know that we have the Resource Access Report (RAR) available but this is produced on a resource by resource basis. Runnin...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Needs more information

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 ...
28 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 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

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 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Under review

CRUD operations on the IAM setting Restrict User Domains should be available via API/CLI

We automate provisioning of all IBM Cloud accounts. IAM settings for "Restrict API Key Creation" and "Restrict Service ID Creation" are available with API, CLI and terraform. But, "Restrict User Domains" https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/settings can only...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration

Allow all controls from a security compliance profile to have notification

Our cloud environment requires to be compliant based on the CIS profile. This means that after a security and compliance scan we need to be notified if any non-compliant controls have been found. This is required also by the auditor to prove that ...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 0 Future consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

Option to disable DA upgrade button

A Deployable Architecture supports Day 1 deployment patterns but not upgrade scenarios. We need a programmatic way to disable the upgrade button on the UI. Not all DAs support the full operational lifecycle. There is a valid pattern of usage where...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / UX and Console 0 Future consideration

Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 7 Future consideration

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