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Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Console for PowerVS via IBMCloud GUI

This idea was created a while back (IDEA-I-3218), and closed, with the only real comment from a developer being that they were not responsible for PowerVS. I should also comment that this problem only really applies to booting the PowerVS instance...
over 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 13 Planned for future release

Add support for Satellite Connector running on IBM VPC infrastructure

Please add support for Satellite Connector with agents running on IBM VPC infrastructure. The FAQ for Satellite Connector ( https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-connector-faq&interface=ui ) says: "Can I deploy Satellite Connect...
9 months ago in Satellite 0 Not under consideration

When configuring ODF through Satellite, it would be great to have the assignment automatically label the storage nodes correctly so other workloads outside of ODF do not run there.

Today when using Satellite, if you want to setup storage nodes so they are separate from application nodes, you have to perform a config, then assignment, and then you will have to run a script on the cluster to label/taint the nodes correct as de...
over 1 year ago in Satellite 2 Planned for future release

Migrate and/or Clone a Single Classic Delivery Pipeline from one ToolChain to another ToolChain

When we are using the Delivery Pipeline in IBM ToolChain, we usually separate the Pipelines into different ToolChains, such as Development, Approval/Testing and Production. Every time a new Pipeline is needed, we need to manually create the new Pi...
2 months ago in Templates & Best Practises 0 Under review

Add more info to database platform logs

Currently platform logs for Databases only display the database CRN, however from a human readability and general log query and alerting standpoint, it would be good to have the database resource name available as well. Was advised by IBM Support ...
10 months ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Default OpenShift version for `ibmcloud oc cluster create`

Clusters created from the web ui OpenShift panel default to the "default" OpenShift version. But the cli defaults `ibmcloud oc cluster create` created clusters to vanilla k8s versions as though they were created through the ibmcloud ks cluster cre...
10 months ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 3 Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
8 months ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Feature requests for IBM Transit Gateway Route Tables.

Proposed feature: Like the AWS implementation ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/tgw-route-tables.html ), users can define the Transit Gateway Route Table (TGRT) per connection. In the example below, customer-1’s TGRT can see the route t...
3 months ago in Network 0 Future consideration