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Increase VPC Remote Security Group Limit

Within your VPC, there are two ways to grant and allow network traffic: Security Groups (SG) and Access Control Lists (ACL). We prefer to use the SGs because they are stateless and their use results in fewer rules which makes understanding our sec...
over 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 5 Functionality already exists

Synchronous mirroring over 2 locations in one IBM Cloud site for block data as a foundation for availability

Background Currently we running + 100 customers with one or several LPARS each (Power Server with IBMi). We would like to migrate to IBM Cloud. These customers run mainly their ERP system in IBMi. The ERP system acts like a business hub, with a lo...
over 3 years ago in Block Storage 1 Planned for future release

automatic IKS worker replacement as a response to a certain metric (classic or VPC infrastructure)

While operating IBM Kubernetes (IKS) clusters (classsic infrastructure) we have run several times into a situation where IKS worker nodes start under-performing. We notice performance issues that are usually visible as: Read timeouts while perform...
about 1 year ago in Kubernetes Service 0 Future consideration

Changed requirements to run DBaaS (ICD) on Cloud Satellite On-Premises

Currently to deploy the ICD on IBM Cloud Satellite service you need NetApp ONTAP-SAN storage. IBM Cloud Satellite does not have specific vendor requirements to run other services. Most client running IBM Cloud Satellite does not have NetApp ONTAP-...
about 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Add pg_partman support in databases

As an IBM customer I have postgres workloads that run in other cloud environments relying on the pg_partman extension. I need pg_partman support in ibm databases in order to run these same workloads in IBM cloud.
3 months ago in Databases 0 Under review

Create a tool to confirm that a Load Balancer will migrate to a new cluster

I needed to delete a cluster which had 1 NLB and 2 ALB's defined. It was created using the default which is not to persist. I wanted to use it in a new cluster. My choices were to recreate them or detach them from the original cluster, which requi...
9 months ago in Load Balancer 0 Not under consideration

User Classic Permissions - Need to Fix

just want to highlight -A user with no classic permission, still able to see the Classic Subnet and VLAN details under network. It should not be there since user has no access to classic.
about 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 7 Is a defect

Support staged deprecation of ICD resources (i.e. allow users to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' and 'prod')

Want way to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' (vs. 'prod') so that when deprecation of older versioned resources occur (like Rabbit 3.9 happening today on Sept 21st), the 'non-prod' flagged resources can be deprecated a week or two earlier. Th...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Need ability to move and delete Enterprise Account Account Groups

We currently have an Enterprise Account and organize accounts for billing using its hierarchy capabilities via Account Groups. We can create, move and rename most things but cannot move or delete Account Groups. This means our Enterprise Account n...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Future consideration