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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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Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Missing useful information in IBM cloud portal

Hello, i am working as infrastructure DPE for Kyndryl cloud offerings (AMMSAP, SEI). As part of my monthly checks in IBM cloud portal, i need to find in the device view an additional column with asset status (ACTIVE, RECLAIM, ...).
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 3 Future consideration

Ehnancing the Bluemix Reporting feature

Its an enhancement of an existing feature at more deeper level rather than a new feature. Looking at the Bluemix Hierarchy At top level we have SI Account. An Account contains multiple Organizations An Organization further contains multip...
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 2 Not under consideration

bx cli improvement

"bx cf services" 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 lif...
over 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Not under consideration

control buildpack update frequency

Although the approximate 1 month buildpack updated frequency is appreciated by a large segment of our customers - there are a number of enterprise customers which have longer application and maintenance cycles than 1 month. What this means is that...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

View Billing Data for the Account/Resource Group or Tags Level on Daily Basis

Hello, I suggest we capture more granualer billing data on daily basis per service level, which we can track at Account/Resource Group or Tags Level. This will help us to more compliant for the cost management.
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 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...
almost 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Add multiple tags at once using ibmcloud

So far is possible to add a tag to a single device by using the command: "ibmcloud resource tag-attach --tag-names TAG --resource-name NAME". However, is NOT possible to do it for multiple devices. It should be great if it could work for multiple ...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Future consideration

Add filter to "ibmcloud account list" to ignore "CANCELED" accounts by default

My individual user ID / IBMid is member of a large number of IBM Cloud accounts for good reasons. Some of the IBM Cloud accounts got deleted (SUSPENDED>CANCEL_PENDING>CANCELED) but are still shown in Web UI and CLI (ibmcloud account list). T...
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 1 Future consideration