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IBM Cloud Pak System

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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.
over 5 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under 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 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

IBM GPFS pattern type makes use of proprietary GPFS wrappers with a defect

The GPFS pattern type version 1.2.10.0 will only use the GPFS wrappers included with the GPFS product in the next release of the GPFS pattern type. Today, GPFS pattern type 1.2.10.0, automatically deployed with two sets of GPFS wrappers. The ones ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

IBM shared-service 'Red Hat Satellite Six Service' using Red Hat Global Registration Template to register RHEL VM's on CPS

Since Red Hat Satellite 6.8.x the preferred mechanism for host registration in Satellite is changed to using the Global Registration Template (GRT) and the former registration method is deprecated. In a future Red Hat Satellite version Global Re...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Multi-cloud support for Workload Mobility

IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.3 Interim Fix 1 introduced a new feature called Workload Mobility, allowing clients to move Virtual System Instances (VSIs) – consisting of one or more Virtual Machines (VMs) – from one IBM CPS appliance to another one (...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Deploy Virtual Appliances with several ordered network interfaces through REST API

We need to deploy Virtual Appliances on PureApplication Software through IBM Cloud Orchestrator, meaning using PureApplication REST API.Moreover, we need to deploy the Virtual Appliances with 2 network interfaces and be able to assign explicitely ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release