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Officially support and document existing feature to protect LBs from auto deletion by service annotation

We got following response from support: "As far as creating a new annotation to disable deletion of the associated VPC LB resource, that support has already been done. There is an undocumented annotation that has already been created. This annotat...
7 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Separate Alert resolution entry in the IBM Cloud Logs Alert summary dashboard

In the current state the IBM Cloud Logs "Alert summary" dashboard only shows that alert has been triggered regardless if it the alert is really triggered or if the alert has been resolved by an user. This can cause confusion amongst the users who ...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"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...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under 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 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future 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 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

When configuring ODF through Satellite, it would be great to have the assignment automatically label the storage nodes correctly so other workloads outside of ODF do not run there.

Today when using Satellite, if you want to setup storage nodes so they are separate from application nodes, you have to perform a config, then assignment, and then you will have to run a script on the cluster to label/taint the nodes correct as de...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 2 Planned for future release

ibmcloud CLI for arm architecture

Currently, ibmcloud CLI does NOT support ARM architecture: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-release/releases/ That would be nice to support them, such as linux/arm64(Mac M1) and linux/arm/v7(Raspberry Pi), also. There would be many devel...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Not under consideration

Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Not under consideration

Improve the new Bluemix console

The new console has bad design! it wastes so much of my screen and displays way less information than the current console. About 1/3 of my screen width is wasted by empty space. Why? Columns that display number of instances or amount of memory are...
over 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration