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Clean up "Remote Commands" section

When I order a new Baremetal I see in the 'Remote Management' section the information of the restarts that preceded my order. I suggest cleaning up the 'Remote commands' section when a server is decommissioned.
about 1 year ago in Bare Metal 1

Add Vitess as Product

Vitess is a mysql compatible scalable Cloudnative Database. As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database. Local tests show good performance and we would like to have...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Option to adjust max_prepared_stmt_count in MySQL ICD

As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database.To compensate for higher latency in cloud database and to further scale the performance we increase connections.The data...
over 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Increase VPC Remote Security Group Limit

Within your VPC, there are two ways to grant and allow network traffic: Security Groups (SG) and Access Control Lists (ACL). We prefer to use the SGs because they are stateless and their use results in fewer rules which makes understanding our sec...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

SSH support for GitLab repositories in IBM Schematics

We need the capability to integrate IBM Schematics with GitLab via SSH. Currently only HTTPS is supported by IBM Schematics. In order for us to maintain control of our IaaC resources in IBM Cloud, we wish to use IBM Schematics but are unable as it...
about 2 years ago in Integration 0 Planned for future release

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

Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
about 3 years ago in Billing 2 Planned for future release

Exporting the report once the case is resolved

Hello IBM, We do raise cases with IBM to resolved the issues which connects to APIC. But once the issue is resolved we are not able to export the entire ticket updates. We required this for our future reference if the same issue occur and we can g...
over 4 years ago in Support 3 Future consideration