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Limitation of log message characters in email alerts

Only 1000 characters from log message displayed in email alerts due to the data size limitation "data.log_example" data size to be increased to 5000 to display meaningful log messages in the email alerts.
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 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

CRUD operations on the IAM setting Restrict User Domains should be available via API/CLI

We automate provisioning of all IBM Cloud accounts. IAM settings for "Restrict API Key Creation" and "Restrict Service ID Creation" are available with API, CLI and terraform. But, "Restrict User Domains" https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/settings can only...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration

Request for Secrets Manager a free plan "Reserved Insance" Customer

Since this week the Certificate Manager was moved off and replaced by the Secret Manager. We are using APIc v10 RI where there was a free plan for the certificate manager, which was perfect for us. Now, we need to pay for the new Secret Manager 29...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Add comment field in SecurityGroup- and ACL-Rules

We have a lot (>100 rules) in several ACLs and we also have a lot of SecurityGroups which also contains a lot of rules. Currently it is not possible to add a comment to these rules which makes it difficult to identify the reason and the rationa...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Future consideration

Make Transit Gateways real-time traffic metrics available to users of IBM Cloud

Nowadays, the Transit Gateways (TGW) which are used to receive Direct Link traffic can measure the traffic but right now there’s no feature in the IBM Cloud platform that allows users to visualize that metric in real-time. Some numbers can be seen...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Direct Link 1 Future consideration

Add pg_cron extension to PostgreSQL

We have the need for running regular maintenance and auditing jobs against our Postgres infrastructure. For example, in Postgres, we have some applications with large, highly volatile tables. As is typical in Postgres, this can cause autovacuum to...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field Issue -

There is issue in display of IBM VPC Console VSI Search Field. I learnt from IBM support team that API does not support search/sorting on VPC, the UI has limitations to do search after a user reaches 200 resources on a table, the search field and ...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Future consideration

Enhance Object Storage Performance

The performance of IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets is currently suboptimal, especially for workloads requiring faster access and throughput. It would be highly beneficial to introduce configurable performance tiers, so users can choose between co...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Future 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...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration