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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.
about 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future 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.
about 2 years ago in Billing 2 Planned for future release

IBM Cloud Shell API

IBM Cloud Shell API needs to exist! I want to be able to run commands for my command that are best run through the cli. Imagine if I have an application that can make API calls to cloud shell to run those commands on my account instead of having t...
about 2 years ago in CLI 3 Planned for future release

Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
over 2 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Integrate ibmcloud cli into kubectl to obtain access & refresh token if they expired

So far, the workflow is as follows: 1. login / authentication with the ibmcloud CLI 2. obtaining the kubeconfig with the ibmcloud CLI 3. using the current kubeconfig with integrated authentication data 4. if this data expires, start from 1. Other ...
over 2 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration

Camera system for IBM

Hello sir, My name is BHAVIN PARMAR and i m in B.Tech 1st year. I have idea about the camera system. i see that if someone is lost the CCTV camera is very useful to find them. but for that we seat in front of display for the many hours to find the...
over 2 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard display of services that need attention (upgrades, discontinuation)

What if the dashboard for IBM Cloud has the ability to display items that need special attention such upgrade or depreciation notice. i.e. if any RabbbitMQ 3.7 exists, 3.7 will be discontinued 9-10, Or your IKS cluster is 2 weeks away from falling...
about 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration

s3 on Power Cloud

Would like to have documentation on S3 on IBM PowerCloud to have performance gains, multipart downloads
about 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Map

Hopefully this reaches who it needs to reach. And doesn’t get lost or stolen. Thank you!
over 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Exporting the report once the case is resolved

Hello IBM, We do raise cases with IBM to resolved the issues which connects to APIC. But once the issue is resolved we are not able to export the entire ticket updates. We required this for our future reference if the same issue occur and we can g...
over 3 years ago in Support 3 Future consideration