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Console for PowerVS via IBMCloud GUI

This idea was created a while back (IDEA-I-3218), and closed, with the only real comment from a developer being that they were not responsible for PowerVS. I should also comment that this problem only really applies to booting the PowerVS instance...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 13 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 9 Planned for future release

Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format

Currently IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) providing an option to download in JSON log format. Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format. Let users decide and select which fo...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Functionality already exists

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...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Direct Link 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...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Enhance Object Storage Performance

The performance of IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets is currently suboptimal, especially for workloads requiring faster access and throughput. It would be highly beneficial to introduce configurable performance tiers, so users can choose between co...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 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 ...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

Bring connection pooling proxy to IBM Cloud Database

AWS RDS has such feature: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/ while there is no similar function in IBM cloud side. To make use of connection pool ultimately in the view of customer, they must deploy some proxy, such as PgBouncer in their cluster ma...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Need to configure "Subsystem" names of managed databases to more human readable names instead of CRN

Our customer requirement is that Subsystem names of manage database services shows the database's CRN instead of the databases's name.as customer have many of these instances it is very difficult to filter the database as we have to consistently g...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review