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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 ...
8 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 0 Under review

Create a curl-based script to port IBM Cloud CLI to IBM i and AIX

We want to automate some IBM i and AIX tasks, specially for DR purposes: * GRS operation: Verify, run actions ...* Export an LPAR using scripts , for backup purposes* Take a Snapshot* Get the web-console URL* Retrieve status and values from within...
5 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Under review

CodeEngine to work with Signed images

Today, CodeEngine works with "un-signed" images. It would be very helpful if Code Engine could understand signed images and be able to work with it by verifying. For now, we can consider "skopeo" as a signing utility. Users could provide the publi...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 2 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...
22 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 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 ...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 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
27 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 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...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 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.
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

Cloud Monitoring private endpoints

In each Cloud Monitoring dashboard, we have seen a switch to enable public access to the dashboard. Convenient as it is, we find it to be a "unsecure" as anyone with the link could access our data. Is it possible to make use of "private endpoints"...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 0 Under review

PowerVS - FedRAMP Certification

FedRAMP is a U.S. government program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment and authorization for cloud products and services, ensuring federal agencies can securely adopt cloud technologies. We have a client who is intereste...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

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