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Support log agent/network outages that exceed 24h without any data loss due to ICL dropping "outdated log entries"

For our productive system we have the requirement to survive any downtime of up to 72h, so that on a failure that starts at Friday afternoon it can be solved on Monday morning without loosing data. This also includes log data. However, IBM Cloud L...
13 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Under review

Integrating Multiple Backup Policies with Event Notifications

I have multiple backup jobs in multiple regions (more than 1 in same region also). How can I integrate these with single event notifications instance. I know, only one backup policy can be attached to event notifications instance. I do not want to...
25 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Under review

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Add GPU profiles aligned to core watsonx.ai foundation models

Requesting 2 x NVIDIA A100, 4 x NVIDIA L40S GPU and/or 2 x NVIDIA H100 profiles. These would be aligned to llama-3-3-70b-instruct, presumably the most popular model available on watsonx.ai today. watsonx.ai FM hardware reqs here: https://www.ibm.c...
18 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Under review

Need to configure "Subsystem" names of managed databases to more human readable names instead of CRN

Our customer requirement is that Subsystem names of manage database services shows the database's CRN instead of the databases's name.as customer have many of these instances it is very difficult to filter the database as we have to consistently g...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Capture and Export VMs in PowerVS - status progress

Problem: Capture and Export just show "running" during execution ( ibmcloud pi job ls ) Proposed: adding a % of progress can be useful for any long-running tasks with unpredictable end. End comes out of the blue.
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
8 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 0 Under review

Check price of base image

Hi, Often when I launch an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux virtual machine, the pricing summary will show something like $2.45/hour. If there are 730 hours in a month, then $2.45 * 730 = $ 1788.5/month for the free open-source Ubuntu software. This price is st...
16 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

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