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NextGen Firewall Multi Node High Availability (MNHA) - Virtual IP

Current setup offered by Juniper vSRX is a chassis-based clustering mechanism (running in classic BareMetal servers) requires a pair of firewalls to be placed in the same transit vlan both physically and logically, connecting the two vSRX firewall...
about 2 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Under review

Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
about 2 months ago in Billing 7 Needs more information

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 2 years ago in VLAN 0 Not under 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 2 years ago in Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Support for Parquet S3 Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL for psql PaaS

Please add support for parquet S3 FDW for s3 server ad external data wrapper. It's been officially released on Dic 23 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/parquet-s3-fdw-110-released-2768/ but right now it's not an extension supported by IBM Clou...
2 months ago in Databases 0 Under review

Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
about 1 year ago in Bare Metal 1

Ability to initiate an AIX memory dump on a non-responsive LPAR

When an LPAR becomes non-responsive AIX Support requires a system dump for analysis. With direct access to a HMC this is a simple operation, either through the GUI or in the CLI via the chsysstate command. The PowerVS CLI provides the "pi instance...
over 2 years ago in Power 9 Planned for future release

Add support for Satellite Connector running on IBM VPC infrastructure

Please add support for Satellite Connector with agents running on IBM VPC infrastructure. The FAQ for Satellite Connector ( https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-connector-faq&interface=ui ) says: "Can I deploy Satellite Connect...
8 months ago in Satellite 0 Not under consideration

Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review