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IBM Cloud Pak System

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Encrypted email for call home

In all customer projects where the PureApplication System is used - the Call-Home functionality is one of the most important features, but we depend on the customers security-officer to send out the eMails and Problems to our support team. Current...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Extra check before deleting important instances

Extra check before deleting important instances PureApplication has the ability to deploy a full blown complex environment across PureApplication Systems.Before deleting an instance the PureApplication user is prompted for a dialog to 'Delete' or ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Not under consideration

Change variables values when applying efix at Virtual System Instance

At classic instances we could change the variables values defined at the service.xml when you applied the emergency fix At the vnext virtual system instance this doesn't work anymore.
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Enable restapi within ITM shared services

Unable to activate rest api within the ITM shared Service. We want to call the restapi to optain data from the ITM sharedservice in order to send some of the information to splunk and APM to generate reports and other summaries
almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Not under consideration

Use firewalld in RHEL7 Core OS

In RHEL 7 firewalld is the preferred firewall solution. In the current CoreOS images for RHEL7 iptables is still in use. Please change the CoreOS (and all scripting that depends on this) to use firewalld instead off iptables. This statement could ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Chargeback and organizational profiles

When an organizational profile is associated with an environment profile, there should be an option for all past deployments that used that environment profile be connected with the organizational profile.
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

pure internal IIM repository handling logging

If you try to upload an IIM package to the internal IIM repository sometimes the upload fails, but there's no output of the reason why it fails. so it would be usefull to show some more output of the failure. If you now wan't to see the real error...
about 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Mass deployment of efixes

In the current system an efix can only be applied to a single virtual system. It is impossible to apply an efix on multiple systems or all systems in a cloud group or environment profile.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Inform the owner of the reason for fixes

When an efix is applied to a virtual system the owner of the system is notified through mail. Sometimes these notices may be ignored, if it is a minor fix for instance.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Connect in/out component should support additional network interfaces

Pattern development currently supports firewall configuration through the CONNECT IN/OUT component. This component does not support multiple network interfaces.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration