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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Manage Organization page is very unintuitive to use

Many users really struggle trying to do the simple task of inviting new/existing users to their organization. The feedback I got from the field is that the flow is unintuitive and messy. - 'Team Directory', 'Invite Team Members' and 'Manage Organ...
almost 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / Identity and Access Management 2 Delivered

2 Steps Authentication for Bluemix Login

Would be nice and also make things more secure to be able to use something like google authenticator application with Bluemix login. It would also be great to be able to have different password policies for Bluemix Login. What is currently in plac...
almost 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / Identity and Access Management / Security 0 Delivered

Store my Region

Please store the region Im using on startup. Everytime I log-in I need to switch to UK...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Desire user ability to "disable" or "collapse" certain UI components to minimize platform API calls

There are alot of UI elements that are independently loading within the dashboard (I've counted at a least 10+ spinners at once) Frankly, many of items ultimately loading are simply noise to my immediate needs (e.g. Containers with 0/2 public IPs,...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Please add better documentation on how to create and use search indexes. It's very difficult to figure out using the existing documentation.

The documentation to setup and use a search index in Cloudant is very hard to understand. It would be ideal to provide more use case code examples in the documentation.
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Add "change management" privilege to the Admin Console

LBG is requiring to have a specific "change management" privilege to limit access to "Maintenance Updates" pages only in their Administrative Console. Currently "Super user" privileges are needed with a full control in the entire Administrative fu...
almost 7 years ago in Administration 3 Delivered

Virtual Private Community cloud (VPCC) and Virtual Private Government Community Cloud (VPGCC)

Hello IBMTeam, As I am observing that IBM is mastering the art of setting up VPC , would like to suggest few more models to serve larger group and get benefitted. The models are, Virtual Private Community Cloud (VPCC) For e.g. Consider R...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Trending Services

As a new user of Bluemix, I would like to see what services are used the most "the top 10" if you will. And perhaps the 3 newest services too? This would allow a new user to select a solid starting point for trying Bluemix. I could do without the ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Delivered

Notify deprecated services on the Service creation page

I understand some of the older Mobile services like Push are being replaced by new services (IBM Push Notification). The old services have a grey icon instead of the normal coloured one. It would be really useful to have this information on the Se...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Delivered