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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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Java development in Bluemix

Hi, When developing a Java application which uses services, there should be an easy way to run it locally and still have connection to all the services. The VCAP_SERVICES environment variable should be seamlessly configured to the local Liberty. ...
about 8 years ago in Templates & Best Practises 2 Not under consideration

Customize Bluemix landing page content

Provide a way to customize the content of Bluemix landing page for Dedicated and Local. It would be useful for clients to be able to remove content that is not applicable in their environment (i.e. containers) as well as to add client specific lin...
about 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

BM user Password Expiry Policy

Currently Bluemix does not have any password expiry policy. Customer from Finance domain has requested to have a password expiry policy (configurable if possible) for BM users.
over 7 years ago in Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to move a app to a different space.

Today there is no way to move an existing application from one space to another space using the Bluemix UI. Instead you have to redeploy your application using the CLI to a new space. This task, while it seems simple enough, can be a bit challengi...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / DevOps 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to change the default domain

By default, Bluemix dedicated is configured to use a *mybluemix.net URL for all applications. As this resides on our internal network, the preference would be to use our own internal domain suffixes and not expose the *mybluemix.net suffix as an o...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Make `idle_in_transaction_session_timeout` a configurable setting in databases for postgres

Real life scenario application has a bug that causes a DB transaction to never be closed postgres needs to keep old tuple versions for as long the transction is open autovaccum can't delete old tuples tables start to get bloated performance degrad...
over 3 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Please add R language runtime in catalog

Adding R language runtime will ease you to capture more users of that language. Thank you.
about 8 years ago in  2 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...
about 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in CLI 1 Not under consideration

Improve the new Bluemix console

The new console has bad design! it wastes so much of my screen and displays way less information than the current console. About 1/3 of my screen width is wasted by empty space. Why? Columns that display number of instances or amount of memory are...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration