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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. 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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Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - SMC tasklevel balancing enhancement

Task Level balancing only evaluate the balancing once during the session creation, meaning once the session is created, there is no more dynamic balancing, all tasks will be dispatched to participating cluster according to a static share ratio. Th...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration

Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI for Parallel processing, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum Symphony ha...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Enabling the Parallel processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerators

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

SSM dump after a crash

When a SSM process crash, have a possibility to automatically have a dump or even more logs details
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Flops unit on compute

Add Flops unit of compute on Symphony and Multi-Cluster in addition of CPU unit. Add this metric capacity on host information and on the resource plan.More over it'll be very interesting for Cloud computing.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - SMC - On GUI add role assignment for users

instead of using egosh role command, we would like to manage easily our user on SMC cluster PMR ID : TS000975161
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration