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Core Platform Services

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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 3 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...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 2 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 ...
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 0 Future consideration

Reduce need to re authenticate when 2 factor is enabled

We are using 2 factor authentication to sign in to IBMs cloud. This is enabled both for the web ui and for the cli. Our team uses an authenticator app for the second factor. This authentication setup requires re-authentication too often. I am unsu...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management 1 Not under consideration

CIS plan usage

Currently it is not possible to see the usage of the CIS plans. For example, the standard plan has 5 TB of protected traffic, 10 million DNS queries, 10 million HTTP requests and 1 million edge function requests. Where do I see where I stand? Is t...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Functionality already exists

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
7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

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

Can you pls. extend the (Billing) API to allow retrieval of the index of invoices as well as the attachments (PDF, PDF-extended, XLS) via the Billing API using (!) a ServiceID w/ API key and "Billing/Viewer" access policy assigned? Right now a ind...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Future consideration

create a Watson personal assistant to help us with everything within bluemix

I love Watson and so do all people, Watson is going to change the way we look at things, but first, people need to get to know Watson. I say, integrate a smart Watson assistant within blue mix, it could answer any question e.g. which file can I us...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

As an administrator of Bluemix Dedicated, I want to create custom boilerplates in our Catalog

Sometime ago Bluemix Dedicated provided the capability to add Services to the catalog by registering a Service Broker. This has been very helpful. We would like to take it one step further and provide custom boileplates to our development teams.
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration / Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Associate the apps to the users within an organization

Currently, bluemix allows the apps to be associated to an organization and when a user belonging to the organization logs into bluemix, he can see all the apps created by the users within the organization including his own apps. It would be much ...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration