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Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Future consideration

Separate Alert resolution entry in the IBM Cloud Logs Alert summary dashboard

In the current state the IBM Cloud Logs "Alert summary" dashboard only shows that alert has been triggered regardless if it the alert is really triggered or if the alert has been resolved by an user. This can cause confusion amongst the users who ...
10 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Future consideration

Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Future consideration

WebConsole Cut&Paste - Fix and change request

The cut&paste is a really great improvement that many users were asking for from the beginning of PowerVS. Fix request: I have tried to use the VSI WebConsole Cut&Paste feature following the docs using Windows, Linux and MacOS with no succ...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Functionality already exists

Add a CLONE command to the Power-IaaS Plugin in CLI

We have built a couple of scripts to ease our IBM Power Virtual Server administration: exporting to disk, exporting to COS, snapshots, launching consoles on browser, and now we have built a clone VSI process, exporting to disk and building the VSI...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Functionality already exists

DB2 on Cloud : HADR synchronization NEARSYNC mode

In DB2OC 11.5, with a DB in HADR there is only one syncrhonization mode between the primary and replicated node : SYNC mode. Would be interesting to have the same options as we have in DB2 classic (SYNC, NEARSYNC, ASYNC, SUPERASYNC) See details be...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Not under consideration

Four-Eyes Deletion Control for Critical IBM Cloud Services

IBM Cloud is an enterprise-grade platform where mission‑critical services are deployed and operated. A customer recently shared the following scenario: during periods of staff reduction or personnel transitions, there is a risk that a frustrated o...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security Needs more information

Support from RedHat Openshift Virtualization on IBM Classic Bare Metal

Hi, Since a lot of customers are now moving from VMware to alternatives it would make a lot of sense to support RedHat Openshift Virtualization (OVE) on IBM Classic Bare Metal. This since customers need a good virtualization alternative.
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal Not under consideration

Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spend...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Logical Replication with copy data in PostgreSQL 15

We would like to request support and clarification regarding logical replication behavior in PostgreSQL 15 on IBM Cloud. Currently, in IBM Cloud–managed PostgreSQL 15, logical replication with copy_data = true is not supported, This limitation cre...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

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