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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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[SDK and API] - Client connection HA - Add re-try logic for symphony initial connection failures

Platform symphony have environmental variables on client side to retry established connections to SSM should problems happen. However there is no re-try logic if there is problem connecting to symphony for initial connections. This is painful when...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - Task scheduled to service instance under initialization instead of those ready to run tasks

The service has the logic to restart itself once memory utilization hits certain threshold. It returns a control code(1) when finishing a task, and upon this control code, SI is configured to restart itself. However, tasks are found to be dispatch...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

Accept () API to tune Windows 2008 Queue Size - Commerzbank

Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable very small queue size ie 200.Some temporary workaround patches were to fine tune setting but To resolve the issue, Commerzbank contacted Microsoft to make the 2008 backlog queue size configurable as in Windows 2...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 2 Delivered

[SDK and API] - Client connection HA - Client connection API should be resilient when SD's crashing, or failover or network glitch

When SD's experiencing some issues(eg. SD core dumping, SD failing over, or network or glitches), the symphony client should be having retry mechanism, instead of aborting.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered

[EGO][System] - Improve cluster restart speed on large clusters with unavailable hosts

It took long time to restart the master in a large scale cluster, even there is no workload running. The problem is more significant for clusters with many scavenged hosts.An example is in a ~2000 scavenging hosts cluster, it could take >30min ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered