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Identity and Access Management

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AppID User API Query based on Date Created

We currently query the AppID User Management APIs to get a list of users to then write to our database. As there is not a delta field available we have to load all of the user data everyday. Instead I'd like to query for new users based on date cr...
about 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

Support Ticket Access Rights

We require a more granular access for IBM Cloud account users to be able to update/edit support cases they’ve been added to by the ticket creator but limited only to update or edit the ticket to which they’ve been assigned. They should not be able...
over 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Display group membership in UI when user added via dynamic rule.

Per IBM documentation: "When users are added to an access group by a rule, they aren't displayed as members on the access group user list." How are users who do not have access to the ibmcloud command line going to know what groups they are in? We...
about 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Planned for future release

User Classic Permissions - Need to Fix

just want to highlight -A user with no classic permission, still able to see the Classic Subnet and VLAN details under network. It should not be there since user has no access to classic.
about 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 7 Is a defect

Allow more fine grained permissions for Code Engine

Trying to configure a Service ID to just have access to update Secrets (so we can automate certificate renewal). It turns out there is no specific permission for updating secrets, you have to give the Service ID full access to update everything in...
over 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 1 Future consideration

About changing the EMAIL address of the SoftlayerID user

There are still many users using SoftlayerID on the IBM Cloud portal. However, recently, IBM Cloud made it impossible to change their email address on their SoftlayerID user profile. Please revert this specification, and restore the ability for So...
almost 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Permission to disable MFA for parent user

A parent user is assign when a user is created/invited into the portal by customer person with the appropriate permission for IAM in the IBM account. That person with the IAM permission can do anything except disable MFA that the user enable by hi...
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Planned for future release

Master account owner role

I have had multiple interaction with support where the master account owner was required even when I have full right on everything else. Most often it was to disable the MFA on a specific user that it was required to reach out to the master accoun...
over 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future 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

IBM Cloud 2FA Prompt Less Frequently

The current implementation of 2FA prompting is inconsistent and regularly prompts too frequently (sometimes as little as < ten minutes). Requesting a prompt after an hour seems more appropriate.
over 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration