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VPC application load balancer idle-timeout-value

We are using VPC application(db2wh) load balancer on OpenShift IBM cloud environment and some of the job needs connection to be open for more than the maximum acceptable value (i.e. 7200sec.) using annotation - service.kubernetes.io/ibm-load-balan...
3 months ago in Load Balancer 0 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...
5 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services. Useful to send emails from native monitoring services.
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 3 Needs more information

When configuring ODF through Satellite, it would be great to have the assignment automatically label the storage nodes correctly so other workloads outside of ODF do not run there.

Today when using Satellite, if you want to setup storage nodes so they are separate from application nodes, you have to perform a config, then assignment, and then you will have to run a script on the cluster to label/taint the nodes correct as de...
6 months ago in Satellite 2 Planned for future release

VPC Load balancer Pool Member down alert not showing on sysdig

These are defects and will be handled as a Jira. Pls see https://github.ibm.com/NetworkTribe/ELBaaS-VPC/issues/10011 Point: 1. If we configure an alert on PRD LB, we are not able to pinpoint the exact source of the 500 error. Point 2: If we config...
3 months ago in Load Balancer 5 Is a defect

Add Vitess as Product

Vitess is a mysql compatible scalable Cloudnative Database. As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database. Local tests show good performance and we would like to have...
7 months ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Option to adjust max_prepared_stmt_count in MySQL ICD

As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database.To compensate for higher latency in cloud database and to further scale the performance we increase connections.The data...
7 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

We need a REST and CLI interface to generate API keys for the account owner and other functional/service IDs.

I am part of a team that manages over 1 hundred IBM Cloud accounts and counting. We have automated all the steps of configuring a new account, e.g., resource groups, access groups, access policies, inviting users. But creating an API key requires ...
over 1 year ago in Account Management 4 Not under consideration

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well. I want to configure and monitor my infrastructure from one dashboard only from a single region using cloud native services.
4 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

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 ...
3 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration