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Revise the insane amount of time a simple firmware upgrade takes

Hello, We are running a rather large vSAN environment, it was suggested by VMware we upgrade the disk FW. Since I know IBM (Softlayer) it always takes a tremendous amount of time for these simple tasks, so I asked how long a disk firmware upgrade ...
over 4 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

MySQL service production version

Compose MySQL service go production required MariaDB is better. All cloud providers are turning to MariaDB. Don't know IBM so slow and still ask customer use DB2. Around 80% developers start from MySQL. That is mandatory service that developers re...
almost 7 years ago in  2 Delivered

Built-in backup for Cloudant

Currently there is no built-in backup functionality in both Cloudant managed offering and Cloudant Local product. The available "solutions" require manual set-up - even for a fully managed database. At the same time, Cloudant is positioned as a ...
almost 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Object storage versioning

Being able to version objects in object storage ala Amazon S3 would be very useful to help avoid accidental deletion or overwriting of files, either accidental or malicious (e.g. ransomware). Ideally there would be separate permissions for editing...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

More granular access permissions for cloud object storage

It would be helpful to be able to give someone permissions to upload/PUT new objects in object storage, but not modify/delete them. The Writer service access has 52 more granular permissions listed, but Writer allows objects and even buckets to be...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 1 Delivered

Remove Arbitrary limit on number of Custom Domains for a Paid Account

The doc talks about a limit of 4 custom domains with certificates here: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/manageapps/secapps.html#ssl_certificate That same doc used to say something like "If you need more than 4, contact Bluemix to get more for a...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Delivered

Current monitoring functionality is insufficient for Managers and Owner.

Managers and Owners should be able to see the details of created Apps, Services of users to plan actions ahead. Current monitoring functionality is insufficient. We request that you enable one or both of the following: a) Allow for usage monitori...
over 7 years ago in Administration 0 Delivered

be able to select the ressource group associated to the cloudant service when you create Node-Red starter-kit

We use the ressource group mechanism as a way to create specific cost centre. with the current way of working, the interface don't allow to select the ressource group associated to the cloudant service. The cloudant service is created in a defaul...
about 5 years ago in  3 Delivered

We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services

We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services. Currently some services such as Cloudant, Compose DBs do some changes without notification to us.
over 7 years ago in  2 Delivered

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