Release Notes

Portal

• Requires company name on new account orders
• Fixed issue with certain Korean addresses failing account validation.
• Changed IBM Cloud Docs URLs in emails and automated tickets to new format.

API

• Added SoftLayer_Hardware_Component_Locator::getPackageItemsAvailability($packageId)
• User_Permission_Group::addResourceObject verifies that the resource object exists in the source table.
• Prevents non-anonymous users from using the IOT service and adds SLDN docs stating as much. https://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/IntegratedOfferingTeam_Region/getAllObjects/
• Rename the Customer variable iamUserPermission to iamUserRetrievePermission in the Customer and Ticket classes

Portal

• SafeNet Luna should no longer appear as a software option for non-hsm devices

API

• Add expirationDate validation to User Permission Group
• Fixed the SLDNDocumentation for the ORM key apiAuthenticationKeys.
• Added the numeric check to the beginning of addDeviceAccess function.
• Add short description to Network_Vlan.upgrade, and update description to utilize Automatic and Premium nomenclature.

Catalog

• VSI Reserved Instance Pricing Update
• Reserve Bare Metal - GA
• SAP HANA hardware updates
• Update Monthly and Hourly pricing for Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016 Standard Editions only for VSI
• 32GB V100 GPU on Bare Metal
• Make Package 200 Presets available in Several Data Centers
  • HOU02
  • DAL07
  • SJC04
  • SAO01
• BYOL Support for IC4V VMware OS

Portal

• Fix an issue where users were unable to change user status from VPN_ONLY/ DISABLED to ACTIVE with a user with user-management Editor or Admin role
• Fix issue where receipt pages may show inaccurate totals after PayPal payment.
• Removes the now defunct edgecast URLs from the WWW portal

API

• New service Hardware_Component_Locator

API

• Fix Customer::createObject to be synchronous again (in the delegate-to-Bluemix case)
• Added endpoint to modify account information.

Backend

• R1soft - remove the option to reload with r1soft for private only servers
• Fix an problem that was causing issues when multiple HSMs were provisioned on the same order.

Portal

• Adding missing translations for the order forms

API

• Endpoint to allow Brand Agents to re-activate accounts
  • SoftLayer_Brand::disableAccount
  • SoftLayer_Brand::reactivateAccount
• Added SoftLayer_Hardware_Component_Model::getServerPackageAvailability -Added SoftLayer_Hardware_Component_Model::getGenericComponentModelAvailability

Backend

• Fix issue where usage fees could become incorrect after os reloads in some cases.
• Handle a user being brought back from CANCEL_PENDING in a linked account pair.

Portal

API

• Fix SLDN Network_Component.redundancyCapableFlag to correclty report false when secondary ports are not available to the bare metal server as ordered.
• Adds a note to the BluePages_Search docs mentioning the service will not work for normal customers

Backend

• L7 policy should not allow HTTP listener to have redirect pool with HTTPS protocol

Catalog

• VMware OSs ( 6.5.0u1 and 6.7) that need to be removed from legacy packages
  • packages effected: 255, 259, 261, 263, 265, 267, 269, 271
• Package 257 available in Sao Paulo
• Enable 2U 2650v3 in FRA02
• Create a new pre-set for 6.7u1 to replace pre-set 985 in package 1075.
  • Rename to VCS_SINGLE_NODE_6_7U1_RAID_1
• ‘Veeam Availability Suite’
  • Packaged effected: 46, 248, 251, 253, 255, 257, 259, 261, 263, 265, 267, 269, 273, 551, 553, 555, 795, 797, 835, 837, 839, 911, 991, 1091, 1105, 1107
• Reserve Bare Metal

Portal

• GEP enrollment request form page cache should be cleared, so that the form can generate an unique device finger print

API

• Enabling object masks on the SoftLayer_Product_Promotion.findByPromoCode API
• Add UEFI boot message to order API response
• Change SoftLayer_User_Customer::ibmIdLink ORM key definition to be more efficient
• Add more information to a storage group template exception message

Backend

• Removed location from DTS request since the location used was no longer in the package the request uses.
• Fixed bug where tracking for a shipment was being set on the wrong shipment.
• Fix Account Summary Data in Archive Disk Usag
• Enable MZR support for Cloud Load Balancer in VRF based accounts

Portal

• Fix issue where the order forms were unhelpful in handling paypal payments that were cancelled.

Backend

• Prevent placing an order for more than one private cloud service at a time.
• This issue lets copy to ICOS actions automatically refresh their IAM access token before it expires during large exports.

Portal

• Fixed an error message being displayed when editing a Dedicated Host
• Fixed an issue with selecting more PCIe components on the order forms.

API

• Expose enable data logs api in SLDN
• Adds the ability to look up a promotion and it’s requirements by promotion code from the SLDN API with SoftLayer_Product_Promotion class.

Backend

• Sanitized Cos Imports/Exports source/target paths

Catalog

• Changing the Micro VSI product to its new name Variable Compute.
• Added some new discounts: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/info/discount-servers
• Add Package 257 to DAL13
• Remove VMware OS from the Single Proc 911 package
• Enable Package 911 in SAO01
• Enable Package 555 in SAO01
• Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4
• Mmove the EOS SAP presets to Inactive
  • Package 295 (SAP_HANA_CERTIFIED_SERVERS)
    • Preset 137 (SAP_HANA_E74890V2_1TB)
    • Preset 139 (SAP_HANA_E74890V2_2TB)
    • Preset 141 (SAP_HANA_E74890V2_512GB) ​ + Package 861 (4U_BI_S2_H8000)
    • Preset 197 (BI_S2_H8000)
    • Preset 321 (BI_S2_H8400)
    • Preset 383 (SAP_HANA_8U_8TB) ​Package 885 (8U_BI_S2_H4000)
    • Preset 327 (BI_S2_H4100)
    • Preset 329 (BI_S2_H4200)
    • Preset 331 (BI_S2_H4400)
• RHEL Stock Images - VSIs for VPC
• Apply the updated pricing for the M.2 SATA drive in the following packages 1051, 1053
• GPU - NVIDIA Tesla V100 for SoftLayer Federal
• Update the pricing for preset 1019 in package 1075
• Hourly pricing for LUNA HSM

Portal

• When ordering from quotes, it is no longer possible to select a different country or currency than what the quote was generated with. The order was always ordered from the original quote, this only affects the interface.
• Correct being able to select hourly hardware security modules when ordering.

API

• Fixed a bug in which erroneous input to Server.toggleManagementInterface could cause the generation of transactions which did nothing.
• Force volume modification of magnetic to not unselect magnetic clusters
• Improve performance of removeHardwareAccess methods
• Return correct authenticationKey from SoftLayer_User_Customer_ApiAuthentication::editObject method
• SL_Storage_Allowed_Host exposing additional orm key iscsiAclCredentials.
• Created imported disk image type key

Backend

• Added support for vmdk images for ICOS
• Prevents hardware upgrades on Bare Metal Reserved servers.
• Fixed an issue where users using the getSummaryData API may experience time outs when querying large VDRs