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    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...
    22 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

    Bulk update storage tiers for all volumes attached to a single VM

    Currently, we can change the storage tier for volumes in PowerVS via the IBM Cloud Web UI or CLI. However, this must be done individually for each volume. IBM i VMs typically have a large number of volumes to ensure optimal I/O performance. As a r...
    3 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Submitted

    Confirmation IPL Mode on Cloud COnsole

    We can confirm IPL mode on IBM i OS (System Value) and DST/SST. However it is unable to confirm it on IBM Cloud Console although we can change it. As we can not confirm it before IPL from shutdown status, It is useful if we can confirm it before I...
    3 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud 0 Submitted

    GRS to support Synchronous replication

    All of our PowerHA deployments support Cat A systems and asynchronous replication would not meet SLA and regulations. This means GRS solution between VPCs is not suitable and GLVM is the only solution, adding complexity and resilience concerns.Syn...
    5 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client - Urgent 1 Not under consideration

    Add option to boot LPAR into SMS mode through portal

    Will assist with BAU and error investigation / maintenance etc
    5 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client Request 1 Needs more information

    Installing additional memory in the POD

    Useful for improved performance & scalability
    5 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client - Urgent 1 Needs more information

    Expose ACI functionality to users

    There are various elements of functionality within Cisco ACI that would be beneficial if made available as a configuration option to end users. E.G. Use of ESGs/EPGs to control communication between VSIs within the pod. Having a GUI/CLI method to ...
    5 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client - Urgent 0 Planned for future release

    Cilium for secure Multi-Ach communication between mainframe and Public Cloud

    Cilium by Isovalent is software for an encrypted communication between different Kubernetes clusters. They provide support for different architectures on Service Mesh (Istio) for the communication between Kubernetes clusters, on Proxy level and mo...
    6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Kubernetes Service 0 Future consideration

    Add GPU profiles aligned to core watsonx.ai foundation models

    Requesting 2 x NVIDIA A100, 4 x NVIDIA L40S GPU and/or 2 x NVIDIA H100 profiles. These would be aligned to llama-3-3-70b-instruct, presumably the most popular model available on watsonx.ai today. watsonx.ai FM hardware reqs here: https://www.ibm.c...
    10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 2 Planned for future release

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