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Provide mechanism to restrict access to public url (eg from a CDN)

Many customers use a CDN to distribute their web application and do not want traffic to hit their web app, other than from the CDN requesting a refresh. This is a fairly standard pattern but it is not possible to support currently. This would pre...
about 8 years ago in  0 Delivered

Include a prerequisites checklist at the start of documents

There is an assumption in docs that the IBM/BlueMix environment is set-up & understood. As a newcommer to the IBM environment, but not unfamiliar with development generally, I notice that docs generally 'assume' the user environment & fami...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Please add Memory size on Tiles on Dashboard

If you are running low on memory, the user could use this information to figure out which of their 30 applications is running that could provide back much needed memory. Otherwise, you kind of have to drill into each app. Another option would be t...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Provide an org-centric view of catalog management

Category: Admin Console
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Availability of Dutch Language support in Watson Speech-to-Text API

Currently, Watson API supports only Brazilian Portuguese, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Standard Arabic, Spanish, UK English, and US English. It would be nice if the Dutch language will be added to supported languages. So, all the Dut...
about 8 years ago in AI / Machine Learning 1 Delivered

Provide the ability to use IBM Containers in a Bluemix Dedicated environment

In the following Stack Overflow post, a customer wanted to deploy a locally built MobileFirst hybrid application to a dedicated Bluemix environment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36910138/how-to-deploy-internal-mobilefirst-hybrid-application...
about 8 years ago in Containers 0 Delivered

Pricing Info on the Home Page

There is no mention of pricing structure on the main console page. Since this is an IBM service, people often expect it to be contract-based and/or enterprise-level cost. The fact that we have a free tier and support a PayGo model is great and we ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Delivered

Geolocation based choice of Bluemix region not intuitive

Bluemix seems to automatically choose a Bluemix region (Dallas, London, Sydney) based on geolocating the user. That leads to services possibly not being displayed in the catalog and reactions like "where is all this great stuff you are talking abo...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Document external networking delay when starting a container

See the post at Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30310602/docker-container-cant-leverage-external-cloudant-service-network-resolution It should state in the documentation that it is necessary to write start scripts with delay i...
about 8 years ago in Containers 0 Delivered

Modify hardware affinity after deployment

After deploying two seperate servers and setting up and configuring PowerHA on them I would like to midify the hardware affinity of them so they will always run on different hardware for the nodes in the cluster. Currently affinity can only be set...
about 4 years ago in Power 1 Delivered