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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

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

support TLS termination via service annotation

i want to be able to add TLS certificate annotation to a service and that the listener will be created as HTTPS protocol instead of TCP, and have a certificate from the secret manager attached to it.
21 days ago in Load Balancer 0 Under review

Enable Cloud Logs agent on SUSE & Power VS servers

We currently do not have a native SUSE or PowrVS agent. Best practice for those environments is to have a supported log agent in the environment and route the logs through it. The customer's requesting to have IBM Cloud Logs enabled on SUSE & ...
22 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0 I want to update my VG/CG after its created with terraform for GRS. This feature does not exists as of now. Also, power volume creation should have an attri...
26 days ago in Power 0 Under review

Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
3 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
about 2 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

I want to delete an object on the Cloud Logs's Archive query page

I understand that it is possible to view logs from the archive from the Logs page and Archive query page. However, our request is to delete objects that are not reused from the archive query page. Users are not necessarily familiar with how to u...
6 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Add more info to database platform logs

Currently platform logs for Databases only display the database CRN, however from a human readability and general log query and alerting standpoint, it would be good to have the database resource name available as well. Was advised by IBM Support ...
12 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review