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Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Get Notifications events via API

Currently the only way to notify maintenance events is via mail and unidirectionally or by entering the web. There is no way to consult via API (or in any other way) the maintenance / events bulletin. It would be of great help if this bulletin is ...
about 2 years ago in Logging and Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

Request for keeping SSL-VPN IP address range

We are using SSL-VPN endpoint service on IBM cloud.Due to duplicate IP address on on-premise enviroment, we could only use tok02 endpoint (https://vpn.tok02.softlayer.com/prx/000/http/localhost/login/index.html). But about a week ago, I found that...
about 2 years ago in Network 0 Is a defect

Provide a reliable method to identify instance storage disks attached to VSIs on the disk driver level.

Identifying instance storage disks attached to VSIs in IBM Cloud is currently not straightforward on the disk driver level. The suggested solutions from IBM all have their drawbacks and are not reliable from a long-term perspective. The solutions ...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
about 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
almost 3 years ago in 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 3 years ago in CLI 1 Not under consideration

Create multizone region & Code Engine support for IBM cloud in India (Chennai)

We are using IBM cloud resources in multiple regions as per our customer needs. We use IBM cloud's Code Engine, Kubernetes Service, Cloudant, DNS, etc. When we tried to create a Code Engine project in Chennai region (India) , it did not allow beca...
10 months ago in Kubernetes Service 0 Future consideration

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