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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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Detailed Billing API

Customer requested a API to capture up to the date billing metrics for a given org. They want to add their own interface for an internal application for their internal billing system. If they had the API's available to identify the current cost if...
over 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Provide options to build iOS .ipa and Android .apk files completely in the Bluemix cloud

Please see the following link for a primer on the issue we are facing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41624892/how-to-build-a-react-native-ipa-and-apk-application-in-bluemix Ideally we would like a turnkey method to build .ipa and .apk file...
almost 8 years ago in Mobile 0 Not under consideration

DataPower Segmentation

Currently the Access Point to a Bluemix Local instance is based on a Datapower pair (HA configuration). This DP pair is facing all the input traffic to Applications deployed on Bluemix, although this traffic belongs to different Organizations that...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Notify you by email if a service fails

A forum post asked whether there was a feature in Bluemix for sending service alerts by email. The request comes from the following Stack Overflow post that is centered on the Secure Gateway service: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34358809/bl...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

DEAs Isolation

1. Isolate at network level, DEA Containers & DEA Pools belonging to different Organizations at 2. Isolate at network level DEA Pools belonging to different Orgs from Cloud Foundry Control Components of the Bluemix instance.
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

Ability to change the suffix bluemix.net by something else such as mycloud.net?

In the DNS Specifications, Bluemix Local has 3 wildcard redirects: bluemix.net, mybluemix.net, and custom. A client is requesting to be able to replace the bluemix.net DNS by its own such mycompany.cloud.net This client is asking because this is...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates

Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates.
about 8 years ago in Administration 4 Not under consideration

Collect failed event function of event notification does not work for Email and Webhook types.

The Collect failed events feature can log other types, but I don't see any reason why it can't support email and webhooks, and there's no mention of this in the documentation. I think it should log when an event fails to be sent, just like the ot...
12 days ago in Logging and Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Improve Cloud Notifications

There had been a Juniper vSRX Multiple CVEs announcement in September 2023, and this could be fixed with a new version, which was supposed to be provided by mid-October. There was not any official announcement of a new version release afterwards, ...
8 months ago in Security 0 Planned for future release

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration