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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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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

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

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

Display "SoftLayer ID" in IAM Manage IBM Portal

I'd like to Display Column "SoftLayer ID". In our management method, the"SoftLayer ID" has the same name, but only the"SoftLayer ID" is different.The new portal does not display the"SoftLayer ID", so it is confusing because it cannot be operated w...
about 5 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration

Provide options to build iOS .ipa and Android .apk files completely in the Bluemix cloud

Please see the following link for a primer on the issue we are facing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41624892/how-to-build-a-react-native-ipa-and-apk-application-in-bluemix Ideally we would like a turnkey method to build .ipa and .apk file...
almost 8 years ago in Mobile 0 Not under consideration

Integrate logDNA with Microsoft teams using custom connector or GraphAPI

There is a requirement to receive the logDNA alerts directly on the Microsoft teams channel. Currently, we have email alerts configured. As suggested by IBM support, there is option for Webhooks but they are not secure as anyone who has the URL ca...
over 2 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Command to Copy an Existing Image on Bluemix

A replacement command should be available for "bx ic cpi" to copy an existing image on Bluemix. As "ic" has been replaced by "cr" now, we don't have any similar command available in either the "bx cs" or "bx cr" commands. Copying an image is usefu...
almost 7 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration

DataPower Segmentation

Currently the Access Point to a Bluemix Local instance is based on a Datapower pair (HA configuration). This DP pair is facing all the input traffic to Applications deployed on Bluemix, although this traffic belongs to different Organizations that...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Notify you by email if a service fails

A forum post asked whether there was a feature in Bluemix for sending service alerts by email. The request comes from the following Stack Overflow post that is centered on the Secure Gateway service: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34358809/bl...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration