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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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Please add better documentation on how to create and use search indexes. It's very difficult to figure out using the existing documentation.

The documentation to setup and use a search index in Cloudant is very hard to understand. It would be ideal to provide more use case code examples in the documentation.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Add "change management" privilege to the Admin Console

LBG is requiring to have a specific "change management" privilege to limit access to "Maintenance Updates" pages only in their Administrative Console. Currently "Super user" privileges are needed with a full control in the entire Administrative fu...
about 6 years ago in Administration 3 Delivered

Virtual Private Community cloud (VPCC) and Virtual Private Government Community Cloud (VPGCC)

Hello IBMTeam, As I am observing that IBM is mastering the art of setting up VPC , would like to suggest few more models to serve larger group and get benefitted. The models are, Virtual Private Community Cloud (VPCC) For e.g. Consider R...
about 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Trending Services

As a new user of Bluemix, I would like to see what services are used the most "the top 10" if you will. And perhaps the 3 newest services too? This would allow a new user to select a solid starting point for trying Bluemix. I could do without the ...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Delivered

Notify deprecated services on the Service creation page

I understand some of the older Mobile services like Push are being replaced by new services (IBM Push Notification). The old services have a grey icon instead of the normal coloured one. It would be really useful to have this information on the Se...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Delivered

Please extend the Bluemix platform

If IBM will extend the Bluemix trial for 1 year, especially for students, it will be useful to use Bluemix platform for IoT and mobile integration development. Thank you very much for such wonderful API services.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

"Get Help" section trouble

Once i got into "Get Help" section, i entered the key obstacles i faced in making my app. Later clicked my dashboard tab for looking at some essential, later returned to "get help" center and found my work lost! Please look in to solve this proble...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Be transparent in use of third-party services

The BlueMix web GUI (bluemix.net) depends on multiple services from multiple vendors for implementation. Many of these vendors are implemented in the browser through JavaScript and utilize cookies as well. Certain browsers, e.g. Chrome and Firefox...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 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...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered