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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...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Future consideration

In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Request for Secrets Manager a free plan "Reserved Insance" Customer

Since this week the Certificate Manager was moved off and replaced by the Secret Manager. We are using APIc v10 RI where there was a free plan for the certificate manager, which was perfect for us. Now, we need to pay for the new Secret Manager 29...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 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 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 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...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

The ability to natively and privately connect from Code Engine to IBM Cloud VPC resources (e.g. Virtual Servers) without going through Satellite Connector, VPN tunnel or over a public endpoint

This would be useful for all customers who want to integrate Code Engine with their existing VPC resources. It would greatly enhance the use cases covered by Code Engine, and competitively, would provide a feature that is built-in on other cloud p...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

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