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IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
3 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
7 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
27 days ago in Billing 6 Needs more information

Classic infrastructure VLANs - trunk several servers at a time

When trunking a VLAN to servers in classic infra, the servers choice is currently a radio button, which forces to trunk them one by one. It would be nice if it was a checkboxes list instead of radio buttons, alowwing to select several servers in o...
9 months ago in Network 0 Future consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
10 months ago in Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
7 months ago in Security 1 Future consideration

Support for Parquet S3 Foreign Data Wrapper for PostgreSQL for psql PaaS

Please add support for parquet S3 FDW for s3 server ad external data wrapper. It's been officially released on Dic 23 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/parquet-s3-fdw-110-released-2768/ but right now it's not an extension supported by IBM Clou...
about 1 month ago in Databases 0 Under review

Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
11 months ago in Power 2 Functionality already exists

Improve Cloud Notifications

There had been a Juniper vSRX Multiple CVEs announcement in September 2023, and this could be fixed with a new version, which was supposed to be provided by mid-October. There was not any official announcement of a new version release afterwards, ...
7 months ago in Security 0 Planned for future release

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration