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Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
20 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
24 days ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Restricted write access on OpenShift secrets

For pre-prod environments in OpenShift clusters like SIT, NFT - developers will be having read-write access across all Kubernetes services like deployments, statefulsets, configmap, daemonset, secrets. Unplanned changes to secrets causing issues o...
28 days ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
about 1 month ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

[ENH] Allow multiple Satellite Connectors and API keys on IBM Satellite Connector Agent config.json file

Currently, IBM Satellite Agent can only be configured to use single unique API key at a time within a single Satellite Windows service. Customers using separate IBM Cloud onDemand solutions e.g. IBM Planning Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics on D...
about 1 month ago in Satellite 0 Under review

Additional Plugin Support for RabbitMQ

It would be ideal to grant users the ability to add/enable/disable plugins for the IBM Rabbit MQ service, something that is offered in other managed service offerings of Rabbit MQ.
about 1 month ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Logs Agent to support sending logs to Instana Logs

Today, IBM Cloud Logs Agent[1] supports sending logs only to IBM Cloud Logs instance. ICL Agent could support sending logs to Instana Logs[2], too. This idea is to add support for Instana Logs in ICL Agent so clients can have only one agent to sen...
about 1 month ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Request for Additional Worker Pool Flavor with Increased Disk Capacity

Additional worker pool flavors with 300GB disk capacity (or more) but lower CPU/memory specifications. The current b3c.16x64.300gb flavor provides adequate storage but over-provisioned resources. Proposed new flavors: b3c.16x32.300gb b3c.8x32.300g...
about 1 month ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
about 1 month ago in Secrets Manager 1 Needs more information

Option to disable DA upgrade button

A Deployable Architecture supports Day 1 deployment patterns but not upgrade scenarios. We need a programmatic way to disable the upgrade button on the UI. Not all DAs support the full operational lifecycle. There is a valid pattern of usage where...
about 2 months ago in UX and Console 0 Future consideration