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Core Platform Services

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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...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 6 Future consideration

Show ibmcloud cli equivalent command for an order

When ordering something from the WEB-UI show in the UI a summarized of the order as ibmcloud cli command, so that this order can be reproduced or repeated automatically if need. So if I need to order 10 baremetal node, I can "generate" the cli fro...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Planned for future release

API for IBM maintenance or outage events

We are a current IBM cloud customer hosting a webapp using IBM services. We have a monitoring platform that integrates with e-mail, slack, etc. that can send us alerts when our services are experiencing interruptions. As part of IBMs ongoing proce...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Future consideration

Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

ibmcloud CLI for arm architecture

Currently, ibmcloud CLI does NOT support ARM architecture: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-release/releases/ That would be nice to support them, such as linux/arm64(Mac M1) and linux/arm/v7(Raspberry Pi), also. There would be many devel...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Not under consideration

Allow all controls from a security compliance profile to have notification

Our cloud environment requires to be compliant based on the CIS profile. This means that after a security and compliance scan we need to be notified if any non-compliant controls have been found. This is required also by the auditor to prove that ...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 0 Future consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Not under consideration

Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 2 Planned for future release

Add fields for Bluemix Maintenance Notifications

Hi, It would be extremely useful for us to add more posible fields to the notifications that we are subscribed. Searching in the Bluemix Console Documentation the only values available for the notifications are the following: {{content.categor...
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration