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Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
4 months ago in Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
3 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 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...
5 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Make Transit Gateways real-time traffic metrics available to users of IBM Cloud

Nowadays, the Transit Gateways (TGW) which are used to receive Direct Link traffic can measure the traffic but right now there’s no feature in the IBM Cloud platform that allows users to visualize that metric in real-time. Some numbers can be seen...
3 months ago in Direct Link 1 Future consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

Add pg_cron extension to PostgreSQL

We have the need for running regular maintenance and auditing jobs against our Postgres infrastructure. For example, in Postgres, we have some applications with large, highly volatile tables. As is typical in Postgres, this can cause autovacuum to...
7 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
11 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
11 months ago in Security 1 Future consideration

Restricted write access on OpenShift secrets

For pre-prod environments in OpenShift clusters like SIT, NFT - developers will be having read-write access across all Kubernetes services like deployments, statefulsets, configmap, daemonset, secrets. Unplanned changes to secrets causing issues o...
4 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

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