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PowerVS traffic deny rule (or something like that) between subnets in the same Workspace.

Good-afternoon, Use case: Production Workspace - WSPRD 1 IBM i LPAR - IBMiPRD 2 Cores 128 GB Memory 11TB of Storage ============================= DR Workspace - WSDR 2 IBM i LPARs - IBMiDR and IBMiQA SPP with 3 Cores IBMiDR 0.25 Cores 32 GB Memory...
about 9 hours ago in Virtual Servers 0 Submitted

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
6 days ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Under review

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
12 days ago in Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Use regex instead of prefix for COS type event subscription

When creating a new event subscription of type COS: we can use prefix for files to trigger actions. It would be more useful to use regex instead of (or in addition to) prefix. It would allow me to decrease the number of event subscription that I n...
13 days ago in Containers 1 Under review

support TLS termination via service annotation

i want to be able to add TLS certificate annotation to a service and that the listener will be created as HTTPS protocol instead of TCP, and have a certificate from the secret manager attached to it.
22 days ago in Load Balancer 0 Under review

Enable Cloud Logs agent on SUSE & Power VS servers

We currently do not have a native SUSE or PowrVS agent. Best practice for those environments is to have a supported log agent in the environment and route the logs through it. The customer's requesting to have IBM Cloud Logs enabled on SUSE & ...
23 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Reclaim Improvements

Improvement to reclaim process to remove production IP's earlier in the reclaim process. Potential solutions are to reorder the steps a reclaim occurs in, or to add an account specific flag that allows some customers to skip the maintenance flag w...
26 days ago in Bare Metal 0 Needs more information

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0

Not able to add/update the PowerVS Volume Group/Consistency Group through Terraform 1.74.0 I want to update my VG/CG after its created with terraform for GRS. This feature does not exists as of now. Also, power volume creation should have an attri...
27 days ago in Power 0 Under review

IAM VPC endpoint at JP-TOK region

IBM sold us the idea of having private cloud with no outbound, but this does not applicable without IAM VPC endpoint in JP-TOK region. Please make it possible.
about 1 month ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Planned for future release

Using AI to address common problems with plasmapheresis machines could enhance both the detection and resolution of issues

Here are the main problems and how AI could potentially fix them: 1. Clogging or Blockages AI Solution: AI could monitor real-time data from pressure sensors and flow rates, identifying deviations that indicate a blockage or clog. Machine learning...
about 1 month ago in Analytics 1 Not under consideration