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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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[Cluster Management] Allow new servers joining the cluster in "closed" status

We need to have a way to control the status of the servers just joined a cluster. Currently new servers join the cluster in "open" status which can start to run jobs right away. We need an option to allow servers joining the cluster but in "closed...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

For ASNMON update ASNMAIL EXIT with certain industry standard capabilities

Due to new internal infrastructure requirements, and the loss of the Q-REP dashboard, we need to be able to send email alerts via ASNMON. In order to do this, the ASNMAIL Exit must be enhanced to accommodate certain features which are considered s...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Delivered

Signing all SPSS binaries by IBM trusted certificate

Antivirus systems using heuristic algorithms can recognize IBM License Activator (law.exe) and other IBM binaries which are not signed by trusted certificate as a potential virus and may block their actions.
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Support Record Lengths over 32K

A customer has a very long VSAM record more than 32K in length and it also contains multiple redefines. Classic CDC can handle 32K but failed to handle record size over 32K
about 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

CPU Affinity and Restricting LSF jobs

I am launching jobs on a two socket server each with fourteen cores. Job 1 is using core1/socket1 and job 2 is using core2/socket2 each in exclusive mode. Since both sockets are being used in exclusive mode and since both sockets are in use no add...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

support for CPATH for all SSL communication

Support for CAPATH for all SSL communication - enable certificate chains to be used for all PS components when SSL is used.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Delivered

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Feasibility of multihome Management hosts to support different MTU on network.

We would like IBM to certify below solution for supporting differnet MTU with multiple network cards on Management hosts and different sets of compute hosts where one set of comput hosts has 1500MTU setup and another set of compute hosts has 9000M...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

PAW Exploration scaling/sizing adjustability should be same as the other new experience visualisation types

The ability to adjust sizing/scale with the new experience charts I think is a game changer in relation to dashboard design in PAW. It therefore seems strange and also inconsistent why this has not also been implemented for explorations. i.e. the ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

CentOS support

We would like to migrate our compute node to CentOS. Red hat is already supported and CentOS is a fork of red hat.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered