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Adding IP IP whitelisting capability in APIC

Please add IP whitelisting capability in APIC so that we can manage the ip whitelisting at the apic side.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted

Enable option to build an OpenShift FIPS cluster

Building a FIPS-enabled OpenShift cluster allows for future upgrades to OpenShift Platform Plus, which will position Cloud Pak System as a hybrid cloud platform for Cloud Paks and client-owned workloads. Customers will be able to use OpenShift clu...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted

Support Java 8 or later for PureCLI

According to the documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-pak-system-w4600/2.3.3?topic=reference-downloading-command-line-interface) and from the "Readme" file of PureCLI, the command-line interface PureCLI only supports Java 6 and Java 7 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1

Best practices for NTP service in OpenShift

The NTP service configuration performed by the OpenShift installation using the Cloud Pak System accelerator should apply a best practice to keep the clocks on the nodes in sync. The default configuration of the NTP service increases the risk of c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Audit role to access Log Management feature

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Based on ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Record Log Management actions on audit log files

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Currently...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Planned for future release

CPS support for two NTP-appliances in master/slave setup

CPS support for two NTP-appliances in master/slave setupToday CPS uses the option to configure multiple NTP-servers (four or more) which debate on the time.The CPS state is determined from the default Redhat configuration on the PSM. We need CPS s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Support to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 VMs

IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.4 and 2.3.4.5 provide support for deploying VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and 8 (as well as a number of different versions of Microsoft Windows): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-pak-system-w3550/2.3.3?t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Display the compute nodes with their FQDN in vCenter instead of their IP

Since v2.3.3.2 of Cloud Pak System, BigFix entitlement is no longer included. Our organization is transitioning to Flexera FNMS (FlexNet Manager Suite), an IBM-certified alternative to BigFix/ILMT as described here (https://www.flexera.com/blog/it...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0