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SoftLayer_Account

Added the relational properties:

• allowsBluemixAccountLinkingFlag - Flag indicating if this account can be linked with Bluemix.
• bluemixLinkedFlag - Returns true if this account is linked to IBM Bluemix, false if not.

Obviously, we have methods getAllowsBluemixAccountLinkingFlag and getBluemixLinkedFlag to retrieve both flags.

And the following methods were added:

• linkExternalAccount - This method will link this SoftLayer account with the provided external account.
• setAbuseEmails - Set this account’s abuse emails.

The documentation says no much about these methods, probably they are used internally by SoftLayer, if we have any further information (as always), we will post here.

SoftLayer_Hardware_SecurityModule

This service has received a lot of modifications, to start, now the service inherits from SoftLayer_Hardware_Server

Many methods were added, more than 50, so if you use this service we recommend to check the service documentation

SoftLayer_Network_Bandwidth_Version1_Allotment

When creating an object, now returns a data type with the same type of the service (was a boolean previously).

SoftLayer_Network_Service_Resource_MonitoringHub

Added the method adnServicesIp

SoftLayer_Network_Storage_Schedule

Added the methods replicaSnapshotCount and replicaSnapshots; also the method getReplicaSnapshots was added too.

The method is used to retrieve replica snapshots which have been created as the result of this schedule’s execution. And the attributes (that are relational and count properties), are used to retrieve a SoftLayer_Network_Storage instance.

SoftLayer_Software_Component_Security_SafeNet

Datatype added with properties:

• hardwareId - Hardware Identification Number for the server this Software Component is installed upon.
• id - An ID number identifying this Software Component (Software Installation)
• manufacturerActivationCode - The manufacturer code that is needed to activate a license.
• manufacturerLicenseInstance - A license key for this specific installation of software, if it is needed.

According to documentation

This object specifies a specific Software Component: A SafeNet instance. SafeNet installations have custom configurations for password requirements.

SoftLayer_User_Customer

The attribute managedByOidcFlag was renamed to managerByOpenIdConnectFlag

SoftLayer_User_Customer_Invitation

Two methods were added to this service:

• getObject
• getUser

So probably SoftLayer will generate invitation internally, and you can get the invitation objects via API once you use a getObject in the datatype there’re some properties to consume like code, createDate, statusId.

Not sure what is the real use for this service, once we have more information we are going to post here.

SoftLayer_User_Customer_OpenIdConnect

This service was added to support OpenID Connect, so if you would like to use OpenID with SoftLayer, we recommend to check the service documentation

SoftLayer_Utility_Network

The following methods were removed:

• isPingable
• ping
• traceroute