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Geolocation based choice of Bluemix region not intuitive

Bluemix seems to automatically choose a Bluemix region (Dallas, London, Sydney) based on geolocating the user. That leads to services possibly not being displayed in the catalog and reactions like "where is all this great stuff you are talking abo...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Document external networking delay when starting a container

See the post at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30310602/docker-container-cant-leverage-external-cloudant-service-network-resolution It should state in the documentation that it is necessary to write start scripts with delay i...
about 8 years ago in Containers 0 Delivered

Snapshot and Volume sharing between accounts

As a SaaS Provider, I would like to provide my customers with the ability to create snapshots and save the data into another (SaaS) account. For customers, it enables an easy migration between accounts (think M&A or multiple account strategy) ...
6 months ago in Block Storage 1 Delivered

Filter query for resources within a Satellite location

This is critical for the Satellite service to ensure that all downstream services in a Satellite Location are removed before allowing the location to be removed (related to the Stratos effort with Power Virtual Workspace and Storage as a Service) ...
12 months ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Information one month before reservations/contracts end

when our reservation of a worker pool ran out of contract IBM just deactivated the nodes in production. It would be much more efficient to get a warning by email one month before, so that neither your support team nor we have to search for the pro...
about 1 year ago in  0 Delivered

Change worker pool flavor - sorting by Memory/Price/Network speed does not sort correctly - it sorts in lexicographical (alphabetical) order instead of numerical order

To quickly find the best instance type for my worker pool I want to be able to sort the columns by Memory / Price / Network speed etc. At the moment the sorting functionality is broken (tested on Chrome and Safari) as it sorts in lexicographical (...
over 1 year ago in Kubernetes Service 0 Delivered

Return Resource name instead of Resource id(Security and Compliance Center)

SCC is returning resource id in which is difficult to pull resource details. If you return resource name it will help user to understand which resource has problem
over 3 years ago in  2 Delivered

Return user email id instead of UUID -Security & Compliance Center

In SCC (security and Compliance center) we are getting uuid for the the user it is long process to identify user. If you can return email id of the use it is very helpful. Chandrajeet
over 3 years ago in  2 Delivered

VPC security groups to be attached to V VPC LBs

It would be nice to be able to attach VPC security groups to VPC Load Balancers. We wanted to restrict access to our public LBs from only CIS WAF services. We were only able to do this by creating network ACLs using the IPs from the LBs and the Cl...
about 4 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Delivered

Modify hardware affinity after deployment

After deploying two seperate servers and setting up and configuring PowerHA on them I would like to midify the hardware affinity of them so they will always run on different hardware for the nodes in the cluster. Currently affinity can only be set...
about 4 years ago in Power 1 Delivered