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IBM Cloud Pak System

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Ability for clients to install patches on IBM Cloud Pak System without intervention of IBM SWAT

As a client we would like to be able to apply patches ourselves, without the need for IBM SWAT to help us do so.
almost 5 years 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...
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

F29: Stop using SMBv1 protocol for communication between BMLS and AXA Windows VM

SMBV1 protocol is considered highly unsecure. It is deactivated by default on Windows 2012/2016 serverCVE-2017-0144 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0144https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/09/16/stop-using-smb...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under 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...
almost 2 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

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration

Pure cli libraries aren't downloaded from the pure console (first request)

Pure cli libraries aren't downloaded from the pure console anymore (first request).
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

UI handling for environment profile web side is different than on other pages

The following PMS was solved via APAR IT29315: "70444,211,788" : can't add new multi rack environment profiles to existing shared service instances, browser hangs The APAR solved issue, but only one behavior is different then from the other UI han...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under 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