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accept PO box billing addresses in standard format

When inputing the billing address for my IBM Cloud payment method, if my billing address is a PO box, then the IBM Cloud website should accept that address. Currently, the IBM Cloud website explicitly states that it does not accept PO boxes. This ...
about 1 year ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

create a dashboard with your park overview (cutomizable dashboard) to manage the assets

giving the possibility for your client to create customizable dashboards for their entire list of accounts, sortable by technology and/or acount and/or locatization (AZ) of each node and status. Eg: i have 4 accounts with VSI, mongo and postgresql...
8 months ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
about 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisioning process to eliminate the occurrence of duplicate IP assignments.

While provisioning RDCP UAT Open Shift cluster, one of the primary IP from a Primary VLAN got auto assigned which caused outage in the PROD environment due to IP conflict. Automate the detection of duplicate IPs during the IBM Cloud IP provisionin...
12 months ago in Subnets / IPs 7 Not under consideration

Add 'Replace text' function in LogDNA parsing rule or view template

Useful for when you cannot control the source of the logs but need to replace strings such as UUIDs with human readable names.
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 1 Functionality already exists

ibmcloud CLI cos plugin: add command to get bucket configuration / metadata

Currently the only way to get the bucket total number of objects and total size as is: In the IBM Cloud Portal web UI go to the bucket configuration Manually calling the API with curl https://config.cloud-object-storage.cloud.ibm.com/v1/b/{my-buck...
4 months ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

VPC Bandwidth

Currently the VPC infrastructure has no place to track outbound traffic, if this generates any costs. I have a Kubernets service that needs to measure the amount of GB used per month, but unfortunately there is no place that can get this informati...
over 1 year ago in  0 Future consideration

Add VSI host name to audit logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA

Currently only the VSI host IP address is in the log context, however also having the host name in there would make it a lot better when using with alerts. Was requested to post this here by IBM Cloud support.
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Log Analysis dashboard session

When I open the Log Analysis dashboard, after a short amount of time (maybe ~20-30 minutes), the session seems to expire and I'm automatically redirected to the Log Analysis instances list page (https://cloud.ibm.com/observe/logging). This can be ...
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 1 Is a defect

Have the Failover check "down-after-milliseconds" Sentinel attribute to be Customer configurable

The down-after-milliseconds is the time in milliseconds an instance should not be reachable (either does not reply to our PINGs or it is replying with an error) for a Sentinel starting to think it is down. Currently we are unable to configure/chan...
4 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

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