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Changed requirements to run DBaaS (ICD) on Cloud Satellite On-Premises

Currently to deploy the ICD on IBM Cloud Satellite service you need NetApp ONTAP-SAN storage. IBM Cloud Satellite does not have specific vendor requirements to run other services. Most client running IBM Cloud Satellite does not have NetApp ONTAP-...
about 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Local or Toll Free Number to contact IBM Cloud Support from the UK

Currently the only way to contact IBM Cloud directly via telephone is on the +1-866-403-7638 number which is Toll free from the US, but chargeable in the UK (and anywhere outside of the US I assume). If you have extended support calls and you are ...
almost 3 years ago in Support 1 Future consideration

Support staged deprecation of ICD resources (i.e. allow users to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' and 'prod')

Want way to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' (vs. 'prod') so that when deprecation of older versioned resources occur (like Rabbit 3.9 happening today on Sept 21st), the 'non-prod' flagged resources can be deprecated a week or two earlier. Th...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Document what settings are only available via the IBM Cloud Console (UI)

In attempting to build automation to create new enterprise accounts, and set them up, it was discovered there's some account settings that are only available in the IBM Cloud Console (ie the Web UI), but not available to be set programmatically (v...
4 months ago in Administration 0 Future consideration

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well

Monitoring - Monitoring Services Workspace/Repository has be accessible from another regional services as well. I want to configure and monitor my infrastructure from one dashboard only from a single region using cloud native services.
over 1 year ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
over 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

VPC Bandwidth

Currently the VPC infrastructure has no place to track outbound traffic, if this generates any costs. I have a Kubernets service that needs to measure the amount of GB used per month, but unfortunately there is no place that can get this informati...
over 1 year ago in  0 Future consideration

API for IBM maintenance or outage events

We are a current IBM cloud customer hosting a webapp using IBM services. We have a monitoring platform that integrates with e-mail, slack, etc. that can send us alerts when our services are experiencing interruptions. As part of IBMs ongoing proce...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Future consideration

Allow for VPC boot disk sizes greater than 250GiB

Currently, VPC boot disks are limited to a max of 250GiB. We have use-cases where having larger boot disk sizes (e.g. 512GiB or 1TiB) would be adventageous. Other cloud providers that we have tested, allow for boot disk sizes in the mulitples of T...
5 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration