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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 Secrets Manager 2 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...
5 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 13 Planned for future release

End of LIfe and End of support extension notification

Recently we noticed that Red hat openshift version 4.10 End of life date was set as nov 30th 2023 but suddenly without an intimation it was changed to Jan 2024.we are setting strict upgrade target dates to our clients and when suddenly a change in...
over 1 year ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in Power 9 Planned for future release

Improve Cloud Notifications

There had been a Juniper vSRX Multiple CVEs announcement in September 2023, and this could be fixed with a new version, which was supposed to be provided by mid-October. There was not any official announcement of a new version release afterwards, ...
about 1 year ago in Security 0 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
over 1 year ago in Bare Metal 1

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 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
over 1 year ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

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