Release Notes

March 29, 2017

Portal

  • Corrected an issue with customers being unable to claim an order quote for Performance or Endurance storage.
  • Fixed an issue where subusers on an account were not able to order Netscaler VPX services even with the appropriate portal permissions.
  • Exception message was unclear when a user without the ’ticket add’ and ’ticket view’ permissions tried to create an upgrade order. New change accurately indicates that the user must have these two permissions in order to create an upgrade order.
  • Resolved an issue where customers were unable to set the customer portal timezone to Brazil.

API

  • When creating a ticket the SoftLayer_Ticket template object requires the assignedUserId property to be defined. This required the additional step of gathering the userId. Going forward the assignedUserId will default to the current user making the API call.

Backend

  • Made changes to the way Post Provisioning Scripts work. The system now drops a small payload onto the customer device to download and execute the requested script, logging all responses to the customer’s syslog.
  • Resolved an issue that was causing two primary IPv6 subnets to be created when ordering Network Gateway services.
  • Pushed code to allow customers based in Serbia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, or South Africa to input Vat ID.

March 20, 2017

Portal

  • Resolved an issue with the customer portal timing out with a large number of billing items.

API

  • Prevent server errors when using SoftLayer_Product_Package getItemsFromImageTemplate.

Backend

  • Fixed an issue provisioning Hourly Bare Metal servers that would require manual intervention to resolve.
  • Fixes a problem that was preventing snapshots from being registered by the poller job.
  • Allow hyphens in emails for IBMid
  • Fixed an issue with offline migrations on windows virtual machines
  • Update Hourly Bare Metal servers to check for mis-configurations before considering available

March 8, 2017

Portal

  • Corrected an issue with ordering Fixed Configuration Servers. When a customer selected an operating system before a datacenter on fixed configurations servers the portal would show errors about storage groups being needed.

API

Backend

  • None

March 2, 2017

Portal

  • None

API

Backend

  • Created an internal tool to unlink Bluemix and SoftLayer accounts. Customers can now open a ticket to request their Bluemix and SoftLayer accounts be unlinked.

February 23, 2017

Portal

  • Portal Exception message was unclear when a user without ’ticket add’ and ’ticket view’ permissions tried to create an upgrade order. New change accurately indicates that the user must have these two permissions in order to create an upgrade order.

API

  • None

Backend

  • Fixed two separate bugs in Endurance and Performance Storage provisioning where provisions were stalling due to API call timeout.

February 16, 2017

Portal

  • Resolved an issue that was preventing punny code domains from being added using the ‘Add Bulk Domains’ tool in the customer portal.

API

  • None

Backend

  • Added some backend code to help automation issues related to sending automated password reset emails.

February 8, 2017

Portal

  • Added a customerWaitTime field on the ticket search page in the customer portal. The customerWaitTime is the time the customer has been waiting for a response on a ticket. Multiple updates by the customer have no effect on this field and a reply by an employee resets the timer to zero.
  • Pushed fix that tests that only numbers, letters, and spaces are allowed for all of the titles for contacts when trying to order an SSL certificate. The Symantec API does not accept any special characters in the ’title’ field for contact information and this was causing orders to fail.

API

  • None

Backend

  • Resolved a bug preventing OS reloads from having partitions if reloading from a Customer Supplied OS (NO OS System).

January 25, 2017

Portal

  • Fixed an issue where the “Add to Order” button overlaps dropdown list content when the list is too long

API

Backend

  • Resolved an issue that was causing Virtual Guests to fail reboot when residing on a host that has been marked as disabled for new instances.
  • Fixed an issue that caused

January 12, 2017

Portal

  • Pushed code to display the correct validation error when a number greater than 999 is used in the % field of Auto-Scaling policy actions. Previously a generic error message was displayed.

API

  • None

Backend

  • Updatd our Microsoft Proxy to handle new TLS requirements by .NET. A recent update to .NET for windows 2012 r2 added a much more strict TLS validation for powershell which in turn caused Post Install Scripts to fail during download.

January 5, 2017

Portal

  • Pushed code to fix an issue that was causing an incorrect success message to be displayed when a user that has disabled/vpn only status clicked the Unlink button.
  • Updated code to correct an error caused by a previously set VAT ID to be reported when the country selected does not use VAT.
  • Updated the customer portal Order Form to include the new Cloud Object Storage general release offering.

API

  • None

Backend

  • None