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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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Core Platform Services

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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 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Allow Collaborators to add/remove Org Users

Currently BlueMix only allows 'Members' of an organisation who have been delegated 'Manager' privileges the ability to add/remove users to the organisation. Collaborators cannot add/remove users regardless of whether or not they are delegated 'Ma...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Invite users for Manager Role

Invite user option is not available for the organization manager. If the Bluemix account owner has invited a user or if he is an existing Bluemix user then we can add/remove users in an organization. This is feature request from customer.
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Application versioning logic

Application versioning is a really handful system for controlling an application deployment. Zero-downtime deployment is now a must-have for every cloud-based application. It's not available by default and it's quite a shame (i think). While the...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / DevOps 0 Not under consideration

Implement a Bluemix "refrigerator" o "trash can" for accidental deleted apps or projects

Accidental deleting is something that happens, our operative systems providers know it well. To have a "second chance" of recovering deleted apps or projects there should be a trash can to roll back to previous state.
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

DataPower Segmentation

Currently the Access Point to a Bluemix Local instance is based on a Datapower pair (HA configuration). This DP pair is facing all the input traffic to Applications deployed on Bluemix, although this traffic belongs to different Organizations that...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Create a "bluemix" Ansible module for automating app and service deployments

I recently wrote a blog that explored the possibility of using Ansible to handle provisioning and deployment orchestration for IBM Bluemix container apps. You can find the article and demo code here: http://greenchile.io/deploying-ibm-bluemix-cont...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Notify you by email if a service fails

A forum post asked whether there was a feature in Bluemix for sending service alerts by email. The request comes from the following Stack Overflow post that is centered on the Secure Gateway service: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34358809/bl...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

DEAs Isolation

1. Isolate at network level, DEA Containers & DEA Pools belonging to different Organizations at 2. Isolate at network level DEA Pools belonging to different Orgs from Cloud Foundry Control Components of the Bluemix instance.
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

Hide Sensitive environment variable data from admins

While uploading some sensitive credentials for an application (DB user/password, etc), one way to do is through the user provided services. These variables are visible to the administrator in the console in clear. There could be a way to categori...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration