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IBM Cloud Pak System

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Provide a shared service for Flexera FNMS (as an alternative for BigFix/IBM Endpoint Manager Service)

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/i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Network troubleshooting commands

We need troubleshooting tools/commands to be available from the CPS UI. Traceroute and telnet are useful commands when troubleshooting especially during emergencies. Commands available on the UI are only show commands which are not enough when tro...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Eliminate updates to plugins when using Workload Mobility

When creating Virtual System Patterns (VSPs), clients can opt to lock the system plug-ins as documented in the section "Lock option for plugin usage" here. Clients who deployed Virtual System Instances (VSIs) using Virtual System Patterns that had...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

LDAP users can't be locked in the CPS GUI

CPS has 2 kinds of user accounts: intern or LDAP. Intern users can be locked, LDAP users can't even with the admin account (Security administration: full permission). A workaround is to delete the user account but that's not possible when the user...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

automatically choose a MAC address during deployment

We would like the deployment to be able to automatically choose a MAC address and asigne it to the VM during deployment
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Python 3.4 Security Vulnerability

Python 2.7.15 is used within PureApp (FW 2.3.2.0.) currently in production within client. This Python version and versions up to 3.4 show security issues CVE-2013-4238, CVE-2013-1752. Vulnerability has been known since 2015.Pls see description PMR...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Future consideration

Disable (unused) auto-scaling in ITM shared-service by default

Deliver the ITM system monitoring shared-service default with auto-scaling disabled. Current default ptypes of ITM have the auto-scaling feature enabled. This can lead to the auto cloning of the RTEMS VM by the system. The extra RTEMS VM however i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

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

Python 3.7.6 Cloud Pak System Supported

Supportability for Python 3 on PureApps/Cloud Pak Systems to execute cli commands to integrate with upstream and downstream products is currently unsupported.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Multi-tenancy: Non-admin user can use the Monitoring Portal

A tenant which is only member of the group "Everyone" but has full access ('All') on a Pattern Instance and the VMs should be able to use the Monitoring Portal (Advanced Monitoring).
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release