Support for Cloud Pak for Applications

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Opening a support case with IBM

Before you contact IBM Support, check Troubleshooting documentation.

To learn more about IBM Support, see the IBM Support Guide and the Getting Started Guide for IBM Support.

To open a support ticket, you must have an active entitlement for Cloud Pak for Applications. If you do not have an active entitlement, see Ordering an IBM Cloud Pak for Applications offering for a list of offerings.

Before you open a support case, if you are running in a cluster, collect MustGather data about your cluster.

To open a support case with IBM, follow these steps.

1. Go to the IBM Support site .
2. From the menu bar on the header, click Open a case.
3. Log in with your IBMid and password.
4. Enter a meaningful Case Title that summarizes your problem.
5. Select IBM as the Product Manufacturer.
6. Select Cloud Pak for Applications as the Product for which you need assistance from the support team.

7. Select the appropriate Severity of the problem. For more information about problem severity, see IBM Enterprise Support Severity Definitions.

   Note: The case severity is based on the business impact of the problem. If you set the case severity as 1, you must be available 24 hours a day to work with IBM Support on the issue.
8. Select the Account that has the entitlement for Cloud Pak for Applications.
9. Provide a detailed Case Description of your problem. A detailed description can help support understand your problem more accurately and thus provide quicker solutions or answers. The following information is crucial:
   • Cloud Pak for Applications product version
   • Installation platform (VMware, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud®)
   • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version
   • Steps to reproduce the issue
10. Collect information about your cluster. For more information about how to gather the necessary information, see Collecting support information about the cluster .
11. Upload the tar.gz file with the results of the diagnostic scan that you ran in the previous step in one of the following ways:
    • Upload a file during the case creation
    • Send large files to Enhanced Customer Data Repository (ECuRep)
12. Select the language preferences.
13. Click Submit a case.

Understanding support lifecycle policies

Cloud Pak for Applications has a modified IBM Continuous Delivery (CD) Lifecycle Policy.

The numbering scheme for the version of Cloud Pak for Applications is based on the semantic version specification that is defined at Semantic Versioning.

Cloud Pak for Applications uses a modified continuous delivery lifecycle policy. Cloud Pak for Applications is composed of several bundled products (programs) and components. The bundled products and components can be used separately from one another, except where otherwise stated by the license. Individual versions or releases of the bundled products continue to follow their own individual upstream support lifecycles.

For more information, see IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Software Support Lifecycle Addendum.

For more information about IBM software lifecycle policies, see IBM Software Support Lifecycle Policies.

Viewing support lifecycle policies for bundled products and components for all editions

To view the support lifecycle policies for the bundled products and components in the various editions of Cloud Pak for Applications, click the corresponding links in the following table.