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Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Under review

Activity Tracking Events Integration with SCC-WP

Please enable integration between Activity racker events with SCCWP Instance as well. Currently AT events can be sent to Cloud Logs, Object Storage and Event Streams only. As part of mature SOC we need to monitor all the cloud activity logs in the...
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Under review

Enable ability to grant roles to admin user in Databases for MySQL

In our organization, we use an internal permission management tool that is based on role-based access control (RBAC). Our MySQL databases use roles to group permissions (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), and these roles are assigned to users via GR...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Integrating Multiple Backup Policies with Event Notifications

I have multiple backup jobs in multiple regions (more than 1 in same region also). How can I integrate these with single event notifications instance. I know, only one backup policy can be attached to event notifications instance. I do not want to...
29 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Under review

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...
23 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

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...
13 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 0 Under review

Check price of base image

Hi, Often when I launch an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux virtual machine, the pricing summary will show something like $2.45/hour. If there are 730 hours in a month, then $2.45 * 730 = $ 1788.5/month for the free open-source Ubuntu software. This price is st...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
21 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
28 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

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