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Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 2 Functionality already exists

Activity Tracking Events Integration with SCC-WP

Please enable integration between Activity racker events with SCCWP Instance as well. Currently AT events can be sent to Cloud Logs, Object Storage and Event Streams only. As part of mature SOC we need to monitor all the cloud activity logs in the...
26 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Under review

Enable ability to grant roles to admin user in Databases for MySQL

In our organization, we use an internal permission management tool that is based on role-based access control (RBAC). Our MySQL databases use roles to group permissions (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE), and these roles are assigned to users via GR...
27 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

CRUD operations on the IAM setting Restrict User Domains should be available via API/CLI

We automate provisioning of all IBM Cloud accounts. IAM settings for "Restrict API Key Creation" and "Restrict Service ID Creation" are available with API, CLI and terraform. But, "Restrict User Domains" https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/settings can only...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Integrated solution for viewing and analyzing VPC Flow Logs

VPC Flow Logs have been available for years, but the data just goes to Object Storage and is difficult to search and analyze or set up alerts. Previously, there was some integration with Data Engine, but that is no longer available. IBM folks have...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Planned for future release

Enabling Logging for IBM Cloud Login Events

Hello, This is about Enabling Logging for IBM Cloud (And its Services) Login Events (Successful/Failed) initiated by various IBM identities like, IBMID, Service Keys, API Keys, etc.This will basically give a broader insight around login events aro...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 1 Needs more information

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 0 Under review

Fluentd plugin for forwarding logs to Cloud logs

We have been used fluentd logdna plugin in order to output logs to Log Analysis from fluentd.Migrating to Cloud Logs, we would like you to release a fluentd plugin for Cloud Logs which has same function as logdna plugin. https://www.fluentd.org/pl...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Not under consideration