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create a Watson personal assistant to help us with everything within bluemix

I love Watson and so do all people, Watson is going to change the way we look at things, but first, people need to get to know Watson. I say, integrate a smart Watson assistant within blue mix, it could answer any question e.g. which file can I us...
over 9 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services Not under consideration

Support staged deprecation of ICD resources (i.e. allow users to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' and 'prod')

Want way to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' (vs. 'prod') so that when deprecation of older versioned resources occur (like Rabbit 3.9 happening today on Sept 21st), the 'non-prod' flagged resources can be deprecated a week or two earlier. Th...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

Add Submitter for when you add Ideas into a Shared Group.

When have a Shared Group for Dept, one can not scan the Group Ideas to see who submitted what.
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Account Management Not under consideration

VPC application load balancer idle-timeout-value

We are using VPC application(db2wh) load balancer on OpenShift IBM cloud environment and some of the job needs connection to be open for more than the maximum acceptable value (i.e. 7200sec.) using annotation - service.kubernetes.io/ibm-load-balan...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer Functionality already exists

Log Analysis dashboard session

When I open the Log Analysis dashboard, after a short amount of time (maybe ~20-30 minutes), the session seems to expire and I'm automatically redirected to the Log Analysis instances list page (https://cloud.ibm.com/observe/logging). This can be ...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Is a defect

In Cloud Logs, if multiple alerts are detected within one minute, only one email notification is sent.

In Log Analysis, it was possible to check the past 30 seconds (or a specified time frame) and include all detected logs in the email notification. However, in Cloud Logs, the payload only contains one log line, and when multiple logs are detected ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Future consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Not under consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and how does it help businesses?

I’ve recently come across Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, but I’m not fully clear on what it does. Can someone explain what Business Central is and how it actually helps businesses improve their operations? Answer: Microsoft Dynamics 365 ...
8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Z-Other Not under consideration