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Status page with GPU resource availability per zone

We sometimes are using large GPU accelerated instances (H200, Gaudi 3 etc.) in IBM cloud and have run into the problem that when we provision a new instance there are no resources of the correct profile available in our preferred zone. It takes ab...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Activity Tracking Events Integration with SCC-WP

Please enable integration between Activity racker events with SCCWP Instance as well. Currently AT events can be sent to Cloud Logs, Object Storage and Event Streams only. As part of mature SOC we need to monitor all the cloud activity logs in the...
10 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Under review

Enable ability to grant roles to admin user in Databases for MySQL

In our organization, we use an internal permission management tool that is based on role-based access control (RBAC). Our MySQL databases use roles to group permissions (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), and these roles are assigned to users via GR...
10 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Enabling Logging for IBM Cloud Login Events

Hello, This is about Enabling Logging for IBM Cloud (And its Services) Login Events (Successful/Failed) initiated by various IBM identities like, IBMID, Service Keys, API Keys, etc.This will basically give a broader insight around login events aro...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 1 Needs more information

Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 1 Future consideration

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 0 Under review

Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
21 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Under review

Resource Access Report at Resource Group Level

We need to periodically answer the question asked by auditors "who has change level access to the production environment?" We know that we have the Resource Access Report (RAR) available but this is produced on a resource by resource basis. Runnin...
24 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Needs more information

Check price of base image

Hi, Often when I launch an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux virtual machine, the pricing summary will show something like $2.45/hour. If there are 730 hours in a month, then $2.45 * 730 = $ 1788.5/month for the free open-source Ubuntu software. This price is st...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Is a defect

PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

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