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Classic infrastructure VLANs - trunk several servers at a time

When trunking a VLAN to servers in classic infra, the servers choice is currently a radio button, which forces to trunk them one by one. It would be nice if it was a checkboxes list instead of radio buttons, alowwing to select several servers in o...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network 0 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

We need a REST and CLI interface to generate API keys for the account owner and other functional/service IDs.

I am part of a team that manages over 1 hundred IBM Cloud accounts and counting. We have automated all the steps of configuring a new account, e.g., resource groups, access groups, access policies, inviting users. But creating an API key requires ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 4 Not under consideration

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.
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

GRS to support Synchronous replication

All of our PowerHA deployments support Cat A systems and asynchronous replication would not meet SLA and regulations. This means GRS solution between VPCs is not suitable and GLVM is the only solution, adding complexity and resilience concerns.Syn...
3 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client - Urgent 1 Not under consideration

Add option to boot LPAR into SMS mode through portal

Will assist with BAU and error investigation / maintenance etc
3 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Client Request 1 Needs more information

Db2Wh on Cloud: Request for improvement of resource usage dashboard

The current resource utilization dashboard in the Db2Wh on Cloud web console does not show how much memory/CPU is actually being used. (For example, because Db2Wh on Cloud reserves approximately 90% of the memory required, the graph always shows 9...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Request for Secrets Manager a free plan "Reserved Insance" Customer

Since this week the Certificate Manager was moved off and replaced by the Secret Manager. We are using APIc v10 RI where there was a free plan for the certificate manager, which was perfect for us. Now, we need to pay for the new Secret Manager 29...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Notification for BCS/FCS B side failure

We heard that the emergency announce will be reported only when BCS/FCS both A/B side are on failure, and there are no announcement when only BCS/FCS B side failure is on failure. But I want a announcement. Because we are using both BCS/FCS and wh...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VLAN 0 Not under consideration

CRUD operations on the IAM setting Restrict User Domains should be available via API/CLI

We automate provisioning of all IBM Cloud accounts. IAM settings for "Restrict API Key Creation" and "Restrict Service ID Creation" are available with API, CLI and terraform. But, "Restrict User Domains" https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/settings can only...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration