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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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Ability to modify Spark Shuffle/Master/History Services individually in the Service Profile

Bank of America needs to apply SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY to individually service since Spark Shuffle/Master/History have different memory requirements. In the spark configuration, SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY is applied to all at the same time. BofA would also l...
1 day ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

SQLDI Install Enhancements

The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
24 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Wells Fargo want to have Elastic Filebeat & Logstash applications updated to v8.13 or higher for the embedded products lifecycle management

Reducing risk of vulnerabilities or insure ability to support.
10 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
10 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Spark binaries and configuration files in Spark deployment directory should reside in read-only file system

Currently during provisioning of Spark instance groups we have to specify a deployment directory on NFS which does not exist prior to IG creation. Due to security concerns and software best practices we would like Spark Instance group creation to ...
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Certifying Spectrum Conductor Platform for miniforge.

Miniforge is a relatively new conda installer that is managed by conda-forge community (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge). Our organization has decided to move away from Anacodna and Miniconda and use exclusively miniforge to manage our co...
11 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

Have a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData

We need a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData since under high loads, race condition will occur causing host to be blocked with exit code 127. This occurs since more than one process accessing /tmp/hsperdata_<user>/&...
8 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 3 Submitted