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Control access to runtimes and boilerplates

On Bluemix Local, runtimes and boilerplates visibility in the service catalog on an org/users basis should be available, like what is done with services. In some organisations, runtimes and boilerplates are considered are services per se and the o...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Wrong error messages in Bluemix UI

We have encountered many errors with very wrong error messages. E.G. if an space has not enough RAM, it is not possible to assign IP address slots to the space. If there are no IP address slots it is not possible to request an ip with `cf ic ip re...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

Enabling back v2 authorisation for Object Storage... At least for a while.

Given that StrongLoop hasn't yet added openstack v3 authorisation to its loopback-component-storage, which is now mandatory for Bluemix's Object Storage, it would be nice to have still have available the v2 authorisation method. Although there ar...
about 8 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 1 Not under consideration

Take advantage of digital pen input

Enable handwriting directly into Bluemix apps. When mobility is important virtual keyboards are hated, and natural language (voice) may not be convenient. Hardware with quality pen support is available from Apple, Microsoft and a number of Android...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

provide usage (in hours/minutes)

This is nothing to do with pricing, but with usage. In the Dashboard (in this case for Speech-to-Text), display the amount used for the month.
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Need to have a search on the Bind to Existing Services screen

When you have over 100 services, that screen takes forever to load. Once you get over say 30 services, you could be able to do a type ahead search for the what you are looking for. Like if you just want the SQL database, you shouldn't have to scro...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Service to Restrict access to application and charge the end users as per usage. Online Billing

Once application is created the URL is open to public and can be accessed by anyone, This may lead to unnecessary charging to the developer's credit card who created the application and someone may misuse to increase the usage without paying for i...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

On Database creations for liberty, genenrate DB Utility classes which can directly be used in the application.

Provide user an option to auto generate classes that can manager DB connections for the application for the specified database. This will allow development team to only focus on business logic and not the DB connection part.
about 8 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Offer organization SSL administration per API

Adding a wildcard SSL certificate per API would be a helpful feature for managing organizations with many domains. Maybe this could be integrated in the Cloud Foundry API.
about 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

Request for Additional Worker Pool Flavor with Increased Disk Capacity

Additional worker pool flavors with 300GB disk capacity (or more) but lower CPU/memory specifications. The current b3c.16x64.300gb flavor provides adequate storage but over-provisioned resources. Proposed new flavors: b3c.16x32.300gb b3c.8x32.300g...
21 days ago in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 0 Not under consideration