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Function for users to perform failover for testing

In system development, there is always a need to conduct database failure testing. Many customers consider this as one of their service-in criteria. In order not to put an extra burden on the IBM Cloud SRE team, it would be nice to have a UI that ...
17 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 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...
27 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 0 Future consideration

Deactivate-functionality for secrets in Secrets Manager

For safe housekeeping of secrets in Secrets Manager the following approach is necessary. 1) Deactivate a deprecated secret 2) Hyper care phase, see if there are any issues with the application 3) Delete the secret after successful hyper care phase...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

I would like to extend the support period for the ICOS Plugin

The following supporting case exchange suggests this idea. https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/manage/CS4139921?accountId=c8915e8b106f436a8a1cdcf9ff40ac6a We are using ICOS Plugin on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud as our container PV. The c...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Trusted Profile list view as alternative to tile view when logging in

We make extensive use of Trusted Profile templates which means the same template may be applied to many accounts in the enterprise. We use Trusted Profile templates for privileged access where we want a careful selection of just a single account -...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 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...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Direct Link 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Log routing feature request to support multiple target simialr to Activity tracking routing

IBM cloud Log Routing can be routed to only single target which is IBM Cloud Log instance. User of member account aren't allowed to create additional target for their business use-case. Support Case Link : https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/case...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 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...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

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