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IBM Cloud Pak System

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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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 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

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).
almost 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under 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

Users with only-read access should be able to deploy patterns in a multi-system environment

A user can deploy virtual system patterns, virtual application patterns, and shared services to a multisystem environment.The placement alogorithm determines if all the VMs in the patterns will be placed(1) on one system or(2) across multiple syst...
about 5 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

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.For self-service and pattern development use cases, we need a way to enforce pattern instance deployments to set an expiration date.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Improve Healthcheck report for NTP-server section

Improve Healthcheck report for NTP-server section.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration