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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...
23 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

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...
23 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
about 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 1 Not under consideration

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...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 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
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format

Currently IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) providing an option to download in JSON log format. Provide an option to download the IBM cloud multiline logs (longer than 2000 lines) in CSV format. Let users decide and select which fo...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Fluentd plugin for forwarding logs to Cloud logs

We have been used fluentd logdna plugin in order to output logs to Log Analysis from fluentd.Migrating to Cloud Logs, we would like you to release a fluentd plugin for Cloud Logs which has same function as logdna plugin. https://www.fluentd.org/pl...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

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