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Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance Future consideration

Bring connection pooling proxy to IBM Cloud Database

AWS RDS has such feature: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/ while there is no similar function in IBM cloud side. To make use of connection pool ultimately in the view of customer, they must deploy some proxy, such as PgBouncer in their cluster ma...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

Restricted write access on OpenShift secrets

For pre-prod environments in OpenShift clusters like SIT, NFT - developers will be having read-write access across all Kubernetes services like deployments, statefulsets, configmap, daemonset, secrets. Unplanned changes to secrets causing issues o...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Future consideration

VPC Bandwidth

Currently the VPC infrastructure has no place to track outbound traffic, if this generates any costs. I have a Kubernets service that needs to measure the amount of GB used per month, but unfortunately there is no place that can get this informati...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas Future consideration

Rename-Command to be included in the Redis config File

We are trying to integrate Redis into Instana and was unable to find the re-command in the redis config file. As part of the troubleshooting steps in the documentation we could see that the rename command has to be included to the instana-agent. H...
9 months ago in CephaaS Submitted

Secure and updated container images in the IBM Z OSS Hub (and in general also usable for the IBM Container Registry)

I have created the following request via HackerONE, that many provided container images based on Linux distributions have got "End of Life" and based on that they are vulnerable based on missing updates: https://hackerone.com/bugs?subject=user&...
9 months ago in CephaaS / OpenShift usage Submitted

Additional Plugin Support for RabbitMQ

It would be ideal to grant users the ability to add/enable/disable plugins for the IBM Rabbit MQ service, something that is offered in other managed service offerings of Rabbit MQ.
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

AppID User API Query based on Date Created

We currently query the AppID User Management APIs to get a list of users to then write to our database. As there is not a delta field available we have to load all of the user data everyday. Instead I'd like to query for new users based on date cr...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management Future consideration

Reduce need to re authenticate when 2 factor is enabled

We are using 2 factor authentication to sign in to IBMs cloud. This is enabled both for the web ui and for the cli. Our team uses an authenticator app for the second factor. This authentication setup requires re-authentication too often. I am unsu...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management Not under consideration

Support Ticket Access Rights

We require a more granular access for IBM Cloud account users to be able to update/edit support cases they’ve been added to by the ticket creator but limited only to update or edit the ticket to which they’ve been assigned. They should not be able...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management Future consideration