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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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PA AuditLog does not capture adding / removing users from a CAM group

We are currently working with our Internal Risk team and noticed that there appears to be a gap with PA Audit Logging. We leverage CAM, and when there are requests to add / remove users from groups, the PA Audit log doesn't seem to capture this in...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add easier support for Parquet/Orc to Datastage 11.7

Currently, in order to enable support for Parquet/Orc formats, customers must download 23 jar files with little to no direction on where to get them, then create 2 classpaths manually in environments. The well-intentioned current instructions to d...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Show Saved Templates on the Collaboration Area

Users are much more likely to require a saved template than a saved search as they will routinely do the same types of searches to find items but it is unlikely that they will need to reuse a search for a specific item they have previously searche...
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Balance tasks between Resource Groups

We currently use Balanced Slot Allocation in Resource groups to allow tasks to be balanced evenly between resources. However, if Resource groups are heterogeneous, or if a Consumer can use 2 resource groups, it is not balancing tasks between the r...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

long-running daemons and cgroups

Vendor daemons are preventing us from implementing cgroups for process accounting. We would like to implement cgroups for process accounting in our LSFcluster to resolve a long standing issue of processes escaping fromLSF control. We have several ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF - CSM Job Script Failure does not result in requeue

If a single node in a large job experiences and CSMSCRIPT Failure the job will simply complete and not be requeued for another run on a different set of nodes.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

[more info] Split LSF_TMPDIR into 2 different parameters: job's TMPDIR and LSF daemons' working directory

Have 2 different parameters to specify:1) Job's temporary directory TMPDIR2) LSF daemons' working directory where they core dump in case of fail, or sbatchd creates the .XXX.fanout and the .XXX.sbd directories. At the moment, both aspects are affe...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Logstash 7.4 required to remediate Vulnerability

As part of Logstash Vulnerability remediation -> we would like to upgrade logstash version to 7.4, current version after Spectrum upgraded to 2.4.1 is 7.2. Also one more point, once delivered the patch it would be good, it deletes the older ver...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 2 Delivered

Improve error description for incorrectly formatted date values

The request body for a createEvent operation may contain a client_timestamp property whose value is expected to be a date-time in ISO8601 format. If the value does not conform to ISO 8601, the operation returns a 400 error with a very general erro...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Avoid attempting to recover unrecoverable objects

We want to avoid submitting a job that attempts to recover a table (using advanced recover) if the table is unrecoverable, as this may lead to a situation where we have lost the table without being able to restore it. This should also be the case ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered