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Databases

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Make `idle_in_transaction_session_timeout` a configurable setting in databases for postgres

Real life scenario application has a bug that causes a DB transaction to never be closed postgres needs to keep old tuple versions for as long the transction is open autovaccum can't delete old tuples tables start to get bloated performance degrad...
over 3 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Add Vitess as Product

Vitess is a mysql compatible scalable Cloudnative Database. As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database. Local tests show good performance and we would like to have...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Option to adjust max_prepared_stmt_count in MySQL ICD

As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database.To compensate for higher latency in cloud database and to further scale the performance we increase connections.The data...
over 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM Cloud Databases Redis to use public certificates instead os self-signed certificates

Today, IBM Cloud Databases Redis instances uses self-signed certificates. After provisioning an instance, customer have a extra step to download certificates and configure them on backend systems to allow communication. This is cumbersome, since o...
1 day ago in Databases 0 Submitted

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
11 months ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

Changed requirements to run DBaaS (ICD) on Cloud Satellite On-Premises

Currently to deploy the ICD on IBM Cloud Satellite service you need NetApp ONTAP-SAN storage. IBM Cloud Satellite does not have specific vendor requirements to run other services. Most client running IBM Cloud Satellite does not have NetApp ONTAP-...
12 months ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Support staged deprecation of ICD resources (i.e. allow users to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' and 'prod')

Want way to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' (vs. 'prod') so that when deprecation of older versioned resources occur (like Rabbit 3.9 happening today on Sept 21st), the 'non-prod' flagged resources can be deprecated a week or two earlier. Th...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
5 months ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
about 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

create a dashboard with your park overview (cutomizable dashboard) to manage the assets

giving the possibility for your client to create customizable dashboards for their entire list of accounts, sortable by technology and/or acount and/or locatization (AZ) of each node and status. Eg: i have 4 accounts with VSI, mongo and postgresql...
8 months ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration