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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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Document external networking delay when starting a container

See the post at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30310602/docker-container-cant-leverage-external-cloudant-service-network-resolution It should state in the documentation that it is necessary to write start scripts with delay i...
over 8 years ago in Containers 0 Delivered

Store my Region

Please store the region Im using on startup. Everytime I log-in I need to switch to UK...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

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 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Desire user ability to "disable" or "collapse" certain UI components to minimize platform API calls

There are alot of UI elements that are independently loading within the dashboard (I've counted at a least 10+ spinners at once) Frankly, many of items ultimately loading are simply noise to my immediate needs (e.g. Containers with 0/2 public IPs,...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Improve documentation for platform and services to include information on High Availability and Backup

I really like the documentation layout for the various services and offerings in Bluemix. However, it would be good if there was a section in each giving useful information when consuming the service in production, or even just designing for produ...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Delivered

Support for mutual SSL/TLS for API Manager on Bluemix

Add support to establish two way SSL/TLS connections to API-M and from API-M. This request is for API-M on Bluemix dedicated and Bluemix local. In our environment, mutual SSL is required to integrate API-M with existing enterprise services and bec...
over 8 years ago in  0 Delivered

Please add better documentation on how to create and use search indexes. It's very difficult to figure out using the existing documentation.

The documentation to setup and use a search index in Cloudant is very hard to understand. It would be ideal to provide more use case code examples in the documentation.
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Provide some sort of account/password link from the ACE console.

I log into the Console and would like to change my password. I go to Account and there's no link or indication of any way to do that. Searching in the docs produces nothing. There should be an indication or link to go to your IBM id somewhere (IBM...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Catalog is starting to get confusing, will only get more confusing

During my first pass at Bluemix I became lost in all the technologies available. I did not understand them all and I went with a simpler / inferior solution - Parse.com. As IBM acquires more cool technologies the catalog will only get deeper and m...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Provide a way to access historic logs for runtimes

When a runtime/instance is restarted, all the logs get deleted, a way to access the logs after a restart would be very beneficial.
over 8 years ago in  2 Delivered