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CLI

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ibmcloud CLI for arm architecture

Currently, ibmcloud CLI does NOT support ARM architecture: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-release/releases/ That would be nice to support them, such as linux/arm64(Mac M1) and linux/arm/v7(Raspberry Pi), also. There would be many devel...
about 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in CLI 1 Not under consideration

bx cli improvement

"bx cf services" does not have an option to turn off headers in the output, nor output to json, as other bx cli commands do. Currently I have to script the output to remove superfluous information, if I could just ouput json then it would make lif...
almost 7 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Support for NTLM authentication in cf/bx cli

To access Bluemix Dedicated through the cli, users need to go through a proxy. This proxy only accepts NTLM authentication which cf cli does not support. Unless the proxy is set to accept basic authentication, users are unable to use Bluemix. Belo...
over 7 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Admin plugin in 32 bits

To manage a Bluemix Local deployment, the admin team want to use the CLI plugin. All (or almost all) admin users have Windows 32 bits systems. Thus Admin plugin in 32 bits version is required.
almost 8 years ago in Administration / CLI 1 Not under consideration

IBMCLOUD CLI: check discrepancies between apihost property and api endpoint used for login

Hi, I got a problem this morning that support helped me to solve. I could not deploy a function to the eu-de host because I previously logged to eu-gb and there was a discrepancy between the apihost property (eu-de) and the endpoint used at login...
over 5 years ago in CLI 1 Not under consideration

bx/automated help output

In your documentation is mentioned, that a command is incorrect usage should print out the help page: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-cli-sdk/blob/master/docs/plugin_developer_guide.md#25-incorrect-usage The help page is defined by that str...
over 5 years ago in CLI 4 Not under consideration