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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...
4 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 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...
8 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 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...
19 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Containers 2 Under review

Integrated solution for viewing and analyzing VPC Flow Logs

VPC Flow Logs have been available for years, but the data just goes to Object Storage and is difficult to search and analyze or set up alerts. Previously, there was some integration with Data Engine, but that is no longer available. IBM folks have...
12 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Planned for future release

KiranaFast is an ultrafast grocery delivery app (30–60 mins) that connects users with nearby local kirana stores. It supports small businesses by giving them a digital platform and enables customers to shop quickly and easily. It can use IBM Cloud, Watson AI, and Supply Chain tools for inventory, order tracking, and delivery optimization.

KiranaFast is a mobile app designed to empower local kirana (grocery) stores by connecting them with nearby customers and enabling ultrafast deliveries within 30–60 minutes. The goal is to digitize small retailers, help them compete with big deliv...
6 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration

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
13 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

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 ...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 on Cloud : HADR synchronization NEARSYNC mode

In DB2OC 11.5, with a DB in HADR there is only one syncrhonization mode between the primary and replicated node : SYNC mode. Would be interesting to have the same options as we have in DB2 classic (SYNC, NEARSYNC, ASYNC, SUPERASYNC) See details be...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 1 Not under consideration

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