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Resource Access Report at Resource Group Level

We need to periodically answer the question asked by auditors "who has change level access to the production environment?" We know that we have the Resource Access Report (RAR) available but this is produced on a resource by resource basis. Runnin...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Needs more information

Need to configure "Subsystem" names of managed databases to more human readable names instead of CRN

Our customer requirement is that Subsystem names of manage database services shows the database's CRN instead of the databases's name.as customer have many of these instances it is very difficult to filter the database as we have to consistently g...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Allow IBM Cloud Databases Redis to use public certificates instead os self-signed certificates

Today, IBM Cloud Databases Redis instances uses self-signed certificates. After provisioning an instance, customer have a extra step to download certificates and configure them on backend systems to allow communication. This is cumbersome, since o...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

Check price of base image

Hi, Often when I launch an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux virtual machine, the pricing summary will show something like $2.45/hour. If there are 730 hours in a month, then $2.45 * 730 = $ 1788.5/month for the free open-source Ubuntu software. This price is st...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Is a defect

PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Billing notifications - more info

Hi, Here is a feature suggestion about billing. We often receive a message "10 Day Disconnection Notice" even though auto-pay is enabled. Sometimes this is unexpected. Other times it may be a genuine problem with the payment method. What could be ...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Under review

Electro thermal generation systems on SuperMUC cooling system.

Hi, I recently watched a video about the SuperMUC supercomputer and was really impressed by how IBM efficiently cools it using cold water. What truly caught my attention was how the excess heat is repurposed to supply hot water to nearby buildings...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 1 Not under 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 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 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...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

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