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Allow "name" reference for CLI rather than requiring ID

Every single command within the CLI should be able to reference the name rather than just the ID. The ID is an IBM Guid and not something that can be pulled from memory so is of no value when working in the CLI.
over 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

IBMCloud Schematics Codeless IaC

Our company is using Schematics service to create entire environments. We have run into several issues and challenges to using schematics service to stand up customer envs A simple answer we often received was, why don't we just use the terraform ...
over 2 years ago in  2 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Shell API

IBM Cloud Shell API needs to exist! I want to be able to run commands for my command that are best run through the cli. Imagine if I have an application that can make API calls to cloud shell to run those commands on my account instead of having t...
over 2 years ago in CLI 3 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Satellite storage API support for expansion of COS cluster

Problem summary: Satellite storage APIs support registering desired storage configuration at the time of cluster creation. If however there is a need to add more storage capacity to a cluster then there is no indication to the service requesting t...
almost 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
almost 3 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
almost 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Integrate ibmcloud cli into kubectl to obtain access & refresh token if they expired

So far, the workflow is as follows: 1. login / authentication with the ibmcloud CLI 2. obtaining the kubeconfig with the ibmcloud CLI 3. using the current kubeconfig with integrated authentication data 4. if this data expires, start from 1. Other ...
about 3 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration

Failed Login Attempts are not their in LogDNA even if we target specific account from CLI

Myself i tried to login into my account using CLI and see the logs in IBM Cloud Activity Tracker (eu-de region) I ran command "ibmcloud login -c <account-no> --apikey <wrong-api-key>" As i am targeting specific ibm account, ideally it ...
about 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Future consideration

Change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine".

I want to change the percentage of traffic per revision via GUI on "Code Engine”. So this feature makes to easy deploy (ex. canary release) Cloud Run(GCP) has been able to do that. I think Code Engine needs similar feature too.
over 3 years ago in Containers 1 Future consideration