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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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Proactive Notifications on Maintenance

Would be nice if prior to any planned maintenance and downtime impact there was some type of banner message or something very visible upon login if the update was associated with a region that your instance is being hosted from. There may be email...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

bx cli improvement

"bx cf spaces" does not have an option to turn off headers in the output, nor output to json, as other bx cli commands do. Currently I have to script the output to remove superfluous information, if I could just ouput json then it would make life ...
about 6 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered

Support IPv6 Support for Bluemix Cloud Foundry Apps

In June 2016 Apple announced that Apps for iOS are only supported when they are communicating over IPv6. Therefore, for backend points that are working for mobile Apps IPv6 Support is essential. Cloud Foundry Apps should be deployed into a IPv6 en...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Platform needs two factor authentication for public, dedicated, and local

It's ridiculous that the platform doesn't already have two factor authentication
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Security 2 Delivered

What is your credit card number - is solving the WRONG PROBLEM

With the myriad of shortcomings and issues with ibm cloud billing, requiring a credit number for a new ibm cloud account is forcing serious questions about IBM's tactics and intentions within customer organizations. A customer purchased a $100K su...
over 2 years ago in Billing 1 Delivered

Allow all events to got a single Activity Tracker instance of our choosing

When we automate the creation of new sub-accounts, they currently will require an Activity Tracker in Frankfurt as well as Activity Trackers for other regions where resources may exist. This means we will always need two ATs. We would rather just ...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 8 Delivered

Add CIS Benchamrk Images to IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud need to offer CIS Benchmark images. Other cloud providers have this as part of their portfolio: https://www.cisecurity.org/hardened-images/
over 5 years ago in Compliance 2 Delivered

Enable to set the schedule of a disturb maintenance over Saturday and Sunday on Ops Console

I cannot set the schedule of a disturb maintenance over Saturday and Sunday on Ops Console. When the period of a disturb maintenance is long (over 8hours), customer want to set it to mid-night.
over 6 years ago in Administration 2 Delivered

Get Audit Logs of the Bluemix Public Cloud

We would like to have a possibility to get the audit logs for the following layers / levels in the Bluemix environment: organizational level:e.g.- Which spaces were created / changed / deleted by whom- Which users were invited / changed / delete...
almost 7 years ago in CLI 3 Delivered

define a deputy on account owner level

It is not possible to define a deputy on accont owner Level. So if I am not available as account owner multiple functions are not accessible. You can work around via API. However this is some other drawbacks.
about 7 years ago in Administration 3 Delivered