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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...
almost 7 years ago in 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...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

As a Bluemix Dedicated and Local customer, I need the ability to have a Single Sign On service to manage users effectively

Currently I have to load my LDAP into Dedicated or Local, and after that point Bluemix is disconnected from my LDAP. This makes managing Bluemix difficult because now I have to staff someone to try and keep Bluemix in sync with my company LDAP (e....
over 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 8 years ago in 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...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Enable AIX LPAR reboot with a dump option for a hung server.

We had a situation that AIX server was hung and rebooted the server. Customer requested for RCA of server hung. AIX Vendor support team could not able to provide the RCA as the server was not rebooted with dump option. The AIX server was not reboo...
over 2 years ago in Power 0 Planned for future release

Add data usage monthly/daily reports or volumes in IBM Cloud Secure Gateways

i could see there is a limitation of the IBM Secure gateway product. By default secure gateways should give below details, so that all the support teams can proactively take the corrective action to avoid any service outage to the business. 1. how...
over 3 years ago in  1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

IBM Cloud (and specifically PowerVS) data centre in MEA region

Request for PowerVS service (and IBM Cloud) offering in MEA data centers for customers in the region.​ Almost all of the Hyperscalers have DCs across MEA. In order to compete with them, there has to be a least one DC in MEA. Current closest DC for...
over 2 years ago in Power 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Billing API

Customer requested a API to capture up to the date billing metrics for a given org. They want to add their own interface for an internal application for their internal billing system. If they had the API's available to identify the current cost if...
over 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration