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IMAM XSD Import from Engine Tier

InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) allows you to import .xsd files to get metadata about respective .xml data files. However the way IMAM currently works is that the .xsd file you want to import can only be on the client from which the IMAM ...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

let "-gpu" support "||"

This allows more than one gmodel to be chosen when submitting a job. So it is a useful feature.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Functionality already exists

Auto-update "Contained Relationships" of Physical Data model / Schema Relationships

In Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM), relationships can be defined between Physical Data Models (PDMs) and Implemented Data Resource (IDR) schemas. These relationships can have "Contained Relationships" which associate design tables with IDR tables wi...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

LSF to control SSH sessions on hosts running LSF jobs

We have many users who need to open an SSH session from their IDE ( VSCode, PyCharm) to a cluster machine running their LSF job so they can debug/troubleshoot/test in realtime in an interactive session. While battach works to connect to a cluster ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Future consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

IBM DataStage support PostgreSQL

The "official document or information for IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL 13.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x" could not get now. Same situaation as PostgreSQL 14.x.
over 3 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance lsmake4 to support Grouped Target's in the latest version of make 4.4.1

Currently our tools are using Grouped Target's which don't properly work causing quite a bit of rework after the initial compile.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

More efficient ISALite Check for IMAM import area connections.

Part of the ISALite general health check includes a check for InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) Import Area connections. Specifically, it test the connection for every single Import Area to ensure they're still valid/functioning. This quick...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI

1. Product: IGC2. Associated PMR: TS0014637973. Describe the requirement: Would like istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI4. Use Case: APAR JR60264 addresses performance issue with custom attribute only updates in asset ...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release