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Core Platform Services

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provide usage (in hours/minutes)

This is nothing to do with pricing, but with usage. In the Dashboard (in this case for Speech-to-Text), display the amount used for the month.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Need to have a search on the Bind to Existing Services screen

When you have over 100 services, that screen takes forever to load. Once you get over say 30 services, you could be able to do a type ahead search for the what you are looking for. Like if you just want the SQL database, you shouldn't have to scro...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Service to Restrict access to application and charge the end users as per usage. Online Billing

Once application is created the URL is open to public and can be accessed by anyone, This may lead to unnecessary charging to the developer's credit card who created the application and someone may misuse to increase the usage without paying for i...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
1 day ago in Compliance 0 Submitted

Filter query for resources within a Satellite location

This is critical for the Satellite service to ensure that all downstream services in a Satellite Location are removed before allowing the location to be removed (related to the Stratos effort with Power Virtual Workspace and Storage as a Service) ...
4 months ago in Core Platform Services 1 Planned for future release

Provide invoice details via (Billing) API using a ServiceID (Billing/Viewer)

Can you pls. extend the (Billing) API to allow retrieval of the index/list of invoices as well attachments (PDF, PDF-extended, XLS) via the API using (!) a ServiceID w/ API key and "Billing/Viewer" access policy assigned? The CLI tool doesn't offe...
over 1 year ago in Billing 2 Future consideration

Hide "CANCELED" accounts from IBM Cloud UI's 'select account' drop down

Similar to the IDEA-I-3516 (for CLI), please "hide" (filter out) any IBM Cloud accounts (IMS Account ID + Account Name) from the UI's "select account" drop down list (the one between the "Manage" drop down and the "IBM Cloud Shell" icon in the upp...
over 1 year ago in UX and Console 2 Not under consideration

Account suspended

My account with the IBM Cloud has been suspended, but I do not know how to get it reactivated. Is there a place where users can report such problems and get them resolved?
over 2 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Camera system for IBM

Hello sir, My name is BHAVIN PARMAR and i m in B.Tech 1st year. I have idea about the camera system. i see that if someone is lost the CCTV camera is very useful to find them. but for that we seat in front of display for the many hours to find the...
about 3 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Map

Hopefully this reaches who it needs to reach. And doesn’t get lost or stolen. Thank you!
almost 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration