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Metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring. currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
about 1 year ago in  1 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes - vpc through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes for VPC in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring.currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
about 1 year ago in  5 Functionality already exists

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 1 year ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
8 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

Proxy settings in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

I would use RHCOS in a pure OpenShift environment. However, ROKS uses RHEL7 and there is no machineConfigOperator either. Therefore, Proxy setting to WorkerNode cannot be done by setting cluster Proxy object as shown in the following URL. IBM Clou...
about 1 year ago in  2 Functionality already exists

Make `idle_in_transaction_session_timeout` a configurable setting in databases for postgres

Real life scenario application has a bug that causes a DB transaction to never be closed postgres needs to keep old tuple versions for as long the transction is open autovaccum can't delete old tuples tables start to get bloated performance degrad...
about 2 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to take snapshots on Power Systems Virtual Server

Issue: Currently, there is no GUI to take a snapshot of an instance on Power Systems Virtual Server. Solution: Make it easy to take a snapshot of your instance using the GUI. Effect: The convenience of the service is improved. Workaround:...
12 months ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Power VS do not have any mechanism to increase the timeout: VNC Console

Kindly increase the timeout for VNC console, there is high probability of disconnection in case of weekly backup. and backup can end immediately or stuck in between.
12 months ago in Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud File Storage support for cluster namespace

IBM Cloud File Storage (Classic and VPC) support for cluster namespace to allow for the reduction of vm/host mountpoints. In particular, there is a customer moving thousands of servers to IBM Cloud. This customer has hundreds of servers with clust...
about 1 year ago in  0 Not under consideration

Usage Dashboard - Need to know the space cost

Under the usage dashboard, currently we can view the cost of the services and runtime for the organization. We need the ability to drill down to the spaces and find the cost associated with services and runtime under a space.
over 6 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration