Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Administration

Showing 79

Log a message at INFO level at the end of an event switch

The only way to know that you are currently at the end of an event switch is to switch to the logdir and see that the temporary event log files have been removed. It would be nice to have a log message at INFO level that informs the administrator ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance Session Scheduler Task Accounting File Options

Going over the available documentation on Session Scheduler, I’ve found a few gap under a single class of gap that will limit adoption, though I must say, the solution is not that far off from perfect. Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job speci...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add regular expression filtering for Job Name, Project, and Job Group for searching for jobs

Presently, filtering by wildcard in LSF is only supported in two location, and that filtering is quite limited. It would be nice to extend that filtering to regular expressions and extend it to key fields like project name.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Make Queue Open/Close/Act/Inact 'all' Requests a single event

We recently had a serious issue that required us to close/inact all of our queues, and then perform a database repair using the IBM support tool. However, when we started LSF, all but one of the queues was Open/Act again. This was due to the suppo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration