IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Support the use of UV instead of Anaconda

    UV is very quickly becoming the new industry standard for managing Python packages. It is extremely fast compared to Anaconda and in our HPC plaform this would resolve many performance-related issues in Conda package/env deployments and updates. O...
    6 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

    Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

    The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

    Having more parameters in API calls

    It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
    13 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    improvement on guaranteed pool type for GPU resources

    In our CMCC HPC data center using LSF scheduler as the batch queueing system, we configured different guaranteed pools in order to handle different needs of the users using the Service Class system.The guaranteed pools implemented use both hosts a...
    18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

    LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform

    LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform would be beneficial for teams that use Windows along with Linux for their development. Today such support exists for x86_64 but not for Windows.
    19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Needs more information

    LSF and GitHub Actions Integration

    Native support in LSF for GitHub Actions is useful for teams working on implementing CI/CD.
    19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Needs more information

    Segmentation data extraction

    Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
    about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

    Requesting Java SE 9 or higher with 64 arch support for IBM Optim 11.7

    We are currently using Oracle provided JRE 1.8 32 bit in all of our Optim servers in Linux/Windows. Since Oracle as made all Java/JRE need to have license which needs us to pay license cost for the same. Hence our organization adopted openjdk prov...
    6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Submitted

    LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

    When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
    3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

    Feature Request – Store Job Schedule Information in Repository Database

    We propose that IBM Optim should provide an option to store job schedule definitions directly in the repository database, alongside other metadata. This would allow: - Automatic inclusion of schedules in repository backups. - Easier migration of s...
    4 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

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