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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...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 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...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Direct Link 1 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...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 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...
11 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...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Log routing feature request to support multiple target simialr to Activity tracking routing

IBM cloud Log Routing can be routed to only single target which is IBM Cloud Log instance. User of member account aren't allowed to create additional target for their business use-case. Support Case Link : https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/case...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

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