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Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spend...
10 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Submitted

Create a couple of VSIs, one with IBM i, and one with AIX for public access with self learning purposes

For training purposes in our Telegram group "IBM i en Español" I have a free hosted IBM i LPAR in Mexico so all users can ask for access and test their programs, refresh their knowledge or follow tutorials to learn about this amazing OS. Pub400.co...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 5 Not under consideration

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

WebConsole Cut&Paste - Fix and change request

The cut&paste is a really great improvement that many users were asking for from the beginning of PowerVS. Fix request: I have tried to use the VSI WebConsole Cut&Paste feature following the docs using Windows, Linux and MacOS with no succ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 1 Functionality already exists

Add a CLONE command to the Power-IaaS Plugin in CLI

We have built a couple of scripts to ease our IBM Power Virtual Server administration: exporting to disk, exporting to COS, snapshots, launching consoles on browser, and now we have built a clone VSI process, exporting to disk and building the VSI...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 7 Functionality already exists

Support from RedHat Openshift Virtualization on IBM Classic Bare Metal

Hi, Since a lot of customers are now moving from VMware to alternatives it would make a lot of sense to support RedHat Openshift Virtualization (OVE) on IBM Classic Bare Metal. This since customers need a good virtualization alternative.
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 3 Not under consideration

Proposal: Process Improvement for Floating IP Confirmation During VSI Deprovisioning

Background In IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment, a Floating IP is typically used to enable external access to a Virtual Server Instance (VSI).Since Floating IPs can be detached and reused across multiple resources, they provide f...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Block the creation of a public subnet/interface in PowerVS workspaces at Enterprise Level or IAM

Banco Itau wants to hide/block the creation of the public subnet and/or powervs vm public interface. There must be a way to block this creation at Enterprise level or an IAM action specific for PowerVS public interface. In VPC environment we have ...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 2 Functionality already exists

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 ...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration