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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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control buildpack update frequency

Although the approximate 1 month buildpack updated frequency is appreciated by a large segment of our customers - there are a number of enterprise customers which have longer application and maintenance cycles than 1 month. What this means is that...
almost 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Improve the new Bluemix console

The new console has bad design! it wastes so much of my screen and displays way less information than the current console. About 1/3 of my screen width is wasted by empty space. Why? Columns that display number of instances or amount of memory are...
almost 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Better change history report option

As the operations team we would like to be able to extract a report (change log, CSV) on the changes that have been applied to the environment. Currently a report is available as a PDF only. It is not available via other modes. This will help unde...
almost 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Support for multi-site replication in Compose

Compose Enterprise is lacking critical features to support high availability in Bluemix dedicated environments. Our client has a RPO of 10 minutes where the recommended HA architecture must be active-active on two Bluemix dedicated instances. Curr...
about 8 years ago in Analytics 6 Not under consideration

DMZ as a Service

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, I want the ability to use a DMZ as a service to resolve several networking problems. I would like the option to buy a DMZ as a service for public or private instances, versus a custom solution.
about 8 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

As a Bluemix Dedicated and Local customer, I need the ability to have a Single Sign On service to manage users effectively

Currently I have to load my LDAP into Dedicated or Local, and after that point Bluemix is disconnected from my LDAP. This makes managing Bluemix difficult because now I have to staff someone to try and keep Bluemix in sync with my company LDAP (e....
about 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

As an administrator of Bluemix Dedicated, I want to create custom boilerplates in our Catalog

Sometime ago Bluemix Dedicated provided the capability to add Services to the catalog by registering a Service Broker. This has been very helpful. We would like to take it one step further and provide custom boileplates to our development teams.
about 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Compose databases archive for 10 years

A client requires the ability to archive the data for 10 years.
about 8 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Back up and restore Cloudant databases + recommendations

Although Cloudant provides a way to set up a replication mechanism, there is no guidance on setting up backup (ssnapshot) and restor
about 8 years ago in  4 Not under consideration

As a Bluemix Administrator, I want to be able to run a report for all team members' expenses submitted within the last week.

I am required to submit a weekly expense summary to the Execs.
about 8 years ago in Billing 3 Not under consideration