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Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
about 1 month ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need to have PostgreSQL multi-line audit logs formatted to mono-line in IBM Cloud logs / LogAnalysis

As title, Multi-line logs for postgreSQL are useless with Logstash for Guardium Data Protection using Universal connector.
21 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Reordering TCO Optimizer policy rules via API and Terraform

Cloud Logs TCO Optimizer policy rules cannot be reordered in Terraform. I know that reordering is possible from the GUI (Menu > TCO Optimizer > Policy Criteria). For users who use Terraform for automated setup, this is very inconvenien...
21 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Allow IBM Cloud Databases Redis to use public certificates instead os self-signed certificates

Today, IBM Cloud Databases Redis instances uses self-signed certificates. After provisioning an instance, customer have a extra step to download certificates and configure them on backend systems to allow communication. This is cumbersome, since o...
2 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
11 days ago in Billing 0 Under review

PowerVS Self service DPO on dedicated hosts

For Power Virtual Server Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO) function. DPO is a hypervisor function for on-prem that is initiated from the Hardware Management Console (HMC). DPO rearranges logical partition processors and memory on the system to impr...
2 months ago in Power 0 Future consideration

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...
29 days ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal - Security & Compliance Center

Please implement the latest CIS Benchmark controls to SCC v2 Scanning Portal.IBM SCC v2 Scanning portal have missing the controls as listed below. It is important to have them added to be in alignment with the latest CIS Benchmark. Also, for the p...
about 1 year ago in Security 5 Future consideration
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Bluemix support for new Customer trial enabled to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services

To support high growth BP acceleration initiative to achieve $425M in WCP revenue from ISV/SI partners we need Bluemix offering to support 30-60 day trial for new acquisition customers that allows them to provision BOTH IAAS and PAAS services. To...
about 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Partner Onboarding 18 Not under 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...
9 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration