Managing your account settings

Last updated: Oct 09, 2024

From the Account window you can view information about your IBM Cloud account and set the Resource scope, Credentials for connections, and Regional project storage settings for IBM watsonx.

View account information
Set the scope for resources
Set the type of credentials for connections

You must be the IBM Cloud account owner or administrator to manage the account settings.

View account information

You can see the account name, ID and type.

Select Administration > Account and billing > Account to open the account window.
If you need to manage your Cloud account, click the Manage in IBM Cloud link to navigate to the Account page on IBM Cloud.

Set the scope for resources

By default, account users see resources based on membership. You can restrict the resource scope to the current account to control access. By setting the resource scope to the current account, users cannot access resources outside of their account, regardless of membership. The scope applies to projects, catalogs, and spaces.

To restrict resources to current account:

Select Administration > Account and billing > Account to open the account settings window.
Set Resource scope to On. Access is updated immediately to be restricted to the current account.

Set the credentials for connections

The credentials for connections setting determines the type of credentials users must specify when creating a new connection. This setting applies only when new connections are created; existing connections are not affected.

Either personal or shared credentials

You can allow users the ability to specify personal or shared credentials when creating a new connection. Radio buttons will appear on the new connection form, allowing the user to select personal or shared.

To allow the credential type to be chosen on the new connection form:

Select Administration > Account and billing > Account to open the account settings window.
Set both Shared credentials and Personal credentials to Enabled.

Personal credentials

When personal credentials are specified, each user enters their own credentials when creating a new connection or when using a connection to access data.

To require personal credentials for all new connections:

Select Administration > Account and billing > Account to open the account settings window.
Set Personal credentials to Enabled.
Set Shared credentials to Disabled.

Shared credentials

With shared credentials, the credentials that were entered by the creator of the connection are made available to all other users when accessing data with the connection.

To require shared credentials for all new connections:

Select Administration > Account and billing > Account to open the account settings window.
Set Shared credentials to Enabled.
Set Personal credentials to Disabled.

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