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Allow to connect to the IBM Cloud portal from VPC and PowerVS instances (without Internet access)

Sometimes we need to automate or script some actions on our VMs or LPARs for backup, restore, and management purposes. It would be great to connect to the portal using the CLI or APIs pointing to a local address (maybe the gateway)
10 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Ubuntu images with GPU drivers

Can the cloud virtualization team put out an OS image of Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 with the GPU drivers installed, so that one can start the VM and the GPU just works? That would be of immense helps for customers - currently it takes some trial and er...
10 months ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

SSH Keys Visible Across Workspaces

SSH Keys are visible across Power Workspaces despite of zone or region. It should be only visible inside the particular workspace only.
10 months ago in Power 0 Not under consideration

Storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite

Add supported storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Adapters_and_Drivers/Storage_Adapters_and_Drivers/Containers/Storage_Plug-in_for_Containers. This wou...
10 months ago in Satellite 0 Future consideration

Request for disclosure of knowledge regarding various XenTools issues held by IBM Cloud Support

Currently, our customers are trying to upgrade Xen Tools on VSI. However, they are encountering various difficulties. I'm guessing that IBM Cloud support has also received various inquiries about upgrading XenTools. As a result, I think IBM Cloud ...
11 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Bisam consulting

At Bisam Consulting, we offer a comprehensive range of IT services to meet the needs of our clients. Our services include: IT consulting: We provide expert IT consulting services to help businesses streamline their operations and improve their bot...
over 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Warning or error message when Log Analysis ATS ingestion Keys are used.

The use of Log Analysis ATS ingestion keys does not produce the expected outcome and only Log Analysis STS ingestion keys work to allow logs to be sent to both ATS and STS instances. When using the ATS ingestion keys, no logs will come in at all. ...
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Add webhook uri to Transient virtual servers IBM Cloud Interface

It's usefull to be able to add/remove a webhook url from the IBM Cloud Portal Interface for Transient virtual servers and not using just the Softlayer API SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setTransientWebhook.
over 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Low-Level Security Separation via hashcoding of all executables/scripts via cached/validated Hashcodes

Why do we still have malware, spyware, ransomware, or backdoors? Is it because our firewalls or Anti-virus solutions are only reactive and not proactive? Or is it because we don’t have walled/secured gardens or has security a too high price we wou...
over 1 year ago in Security 1 Not under consideration

Provide invoice details via (Billing) API using a ServiceID (Billing/Viewer)

Can you pls. extend the (Billing) API to allow retrieval of the index/list of invoices as well attachments (PDF, PDF-extended, XLS) via the API using (!) a ServiceID w/ API key and "Billing/Viewer" access policy assigned? The CLI tool doesn't offe...
about 2 years ago in Billing 2 Future consideration