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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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blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Future consideration

Enable Address Verification in Quality Stage

We have a customer that use Watsonx.Data Ingeligence and use Data Quality, they preparing the data to IKC and need to use Address Verification. It's very important and the high value for them this stage to complete the operation.. They have a high...

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
5 months ago in watsonx.data intelligence 0 Submitted

Add LMSTAT_PATH parameter to each ServiceDomain

Due to various compatibility issues between different flexlm version especially with 11.18 above, it is necessary to use the same lmstat version as the Vendor Daemon and thus the need to potentially configure each ServiceDomain with a different LM...
30 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Ascertain Reservable Numeric Shared resources inside custom plugin

We are using a custom LSF scheduler plugin for scheduling purposes. We plan to use the pre reservation (greedy in particular) feature. Here, some numeric shared resources are to be marked as reservable in LSF configuration (such numeric resources ...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Under review

Discard tie-up tracking data for a CICS region that isn't running

IIDR/VSAM encountered issues with tie-up tracking introduced in CICS TS 6.1 where the CICS region would not log/flush tie-up records when a file was either closed intra-day or at normal region shutdown. In order to address the missing file close r...

Add a new bjobs filter about CPU

Hello, Bjobs is providing information about MEMORY and CPU usage. Example:bjobs -o "jobid cpu_peak average_cpu_efficiency cpu_peak_reached_duration" 9242578 JOBID CPU_PEAK AVERAGE_CPU_EFFICIENCY CPU_PEAK_REACHED_DURATION 9242578 1.22 2.58% 65 seco...
14 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Improve handling of long running lmstat

Currently, the LM_STAT_TIMEOUT parameter handling both lmstat connection time out (via lmstat -t < LM_STAT_TIMEOUT > and the length of time blcollect allows lmstat to run before termination. There should be two parameters to configure: 1) lm...
30 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Add Configurable Recall-to-Forward Delay for Multi-Cluster Scheduling

In a Multi-Cluster environment, once a job is forwarded to a remote cluster, it effectively remains there until it is scheduled or completed. As a result, the submission cluster may later have available resources that the job is unable to utilize....
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

First-Available Reservation Mode: reserve every alternative resource combination for the head-of-queue job and dispatch on whichever frees first

Summary Add a scheduling/reservation mode in which the top-priority pending job (thenext job scheduled to run) reserves resources across ALL of its alternativeresource combinations simultaneously, rather than committing its reservationto a single ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration