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Allow users to set much larger retention times on topics to support more use cases, including kappa architectures

Some use cases are not possible with Message Hub because the topic retention times are too small. One example is kappa architecture where you would like to reprocess your data after changing your stream processing logic.
almost 7 years ago in  2 Delivered

Enable creation of other users than just admins in Messagehub

Problem: you want to expose a data stream to a 3rd party. Solution option: Use Kafka and give 3rd party API key to Kafka. Problem: now 3rd party has admin access to your kafka instance and can do whatever they like with your kafka instance.
almost 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Bluemix Log improvement

It would be nice, from an administrative point of view, to be able to tell when a user had last used the system. Since we have a limited number of licenses, it becomes important when I need to remove users who haven't used the system in a while t...
almost 7 years ago in Administration 2 Delivered

Enable to set the schedule of a disturb maintenance over Saturday and Sunday on Ops Console

I cannot set the schedule of a disturb maintenance over Saturday and Sunday on Ops Console. When the period of a disturb maintenance is long (over 8hours), customer want to set it to mid-night.
almost 7 years ago in Administration 2 Delivered

"Windows2012R2 stack on Bluemix"

Now, our company systems are consisted of Windows-Based (ASP.NET FWK 4.5, 4.6 even 3.5) almost 70%. And i heard Cloud Foundry have 3 stacks (ubuntu, centos and Windows2012R2). To tranfer from Legacy to Bluemix, some 3rd party solutions need Window...
almost 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Watson IoT platform - RTI - Support Booelan data properties for rules

In this json msg example hereunder with data type boolean "running" "d": { "id": "belt1", "ts": 1494946276931, "ay": "0.00", "running": true, "rpm": "1.0" } When creating a schema type and "Select properties from a connected device", the propert...
almost 7 years ago in  0 Delivered

Remove Arbitrary limit on number of Custom Domains for a Paid Account

The doc talks about a limit of 4 custom domains with certificates here: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/manageapps/secapps.html#ssl_certificate That same doc used to say something like "If you need more than 4, contact Bluemix to get more for a...
almost 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Delivered

Remove excessive pop up usage and dependence

Hello all, Problem/pain points: I've been a fan of Bluemix for the last 3 years and patiently been watching it evolve. Every couple of months I come by and try to make a virtual server or a baremetal and most of the times I fail. I started back in...
about 7 years ago in Compute 1 Delivered

Current monitoring functionality is insufficient for Managers and Owner.

Managers and Owners should be able to see the details of created Apps, Services of users to plan actions ahead. Current monitoring functionality is insufficient. We request that you enable one or both of the following: a) Allow for usage monitori...
about 7 years ago in Administration 0 Delivered

BlueID simplified login user experience for fed auth

For IBMID users that use BlueID to fed auth with a customers SAML authentication system, BlueID, presents the same login screen for all customers and has a hypertext link requiring the user to either enter their userid (e.g. bibaer@cisco.com) or c...
about 7 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Delivered