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provide usage (in hours/minutes)

This is nothing to do with pricing, but with usage. In the Dashboard (in this case for Speech-to-Text), display the amount used for the month.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Need to have a search on the Bind to Existing Services screen

When you have over 100 services, that screen takes forever to load. Once you get over say 30 services, you could be able to do a type ahead search for the what you are looking for. Like if you just want the SQL database, you shouldn't have to scro...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Service to Restrict access to application and charge the end users as per usage. Online Billing

Once application is created the URL is open to public and can be accessed by anyone, This may lead to unnecessary charging to the developer's credit card who created the application and someone may misuse to increase the usage without paying for i...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

On Database creations for liberty, genenrate DB Utility classes which can directly be used in the application.

Provide user an option to auto generate classes that can manager DB connections for the application for the specified database. This will allow development team to only focus on business logic and not the DB connection part.
over 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Offer organization SSL administration per API

Adding a wildcard SSL certificate per API would be a helpful feature for managing organizations with many domains. Maybe this could be integrated in the Cloud Foundry API.
over 7 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
8 days ago in Databases 0 Under review

Writeback in Power BI and Scheduling In Power BI made easy

Writeback allows users to edit and update data directly within a Power BI report. These changes can then be saved back to the original data source, making your analysis truly interactive. Imagine identifying an error in a sales report and correcti...
10 days ago in AI / Machine Learning 0 Under review

Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
28 days ago in Virtual Servers 0 Under review

View Billing Data for the Account/Resource Group or Tags Level on Daily Basis

Hello, I suggest we capture more granualer billing data on daily basis per service level, which we can track at Account/Resource Group or Tags Level. This will help us to more compliant for the cost management.
about 1 month ago in Billing 0 Under review

Storage area - export CSV/XLS

it would be utilile to implement beautiful various subsections Storage ( Block Storage / Files Storage ) implement an xls/csv export.
2 months ago in Storage 1 Needs more information

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