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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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SSH User and Host Key renewal

In Netezza, ssh keys are rigid and can not be renewed (refer TS018311857). Per constant security threats, this is a least requirement to renew ssh root user and ssh host keys. And ssh keys are integrated with internal and external nodes, we reques...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Cyclops in the same timezone as system

We are operating on CET/CEST timezones and noticed that in query history we have times that should not exist from the period between 2025-03-30 02:00:00 and 2025-03-30 03:00:00. At 2:00 AM the clocks were pushed 1 hour forward to 3:00 AM so there ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Support SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION for Kerberos Enabled Cluster

I just realized that per documentation here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=rw-directly-connecting-recursive-session-spectrum-symphony-session-manager-ssm , SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION is not supported when we...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Limit Priority Over Time and Max User Priority by Queue

There are user workflows that require using priority to order flows and their execution. However, when priority over time is enabled, those methods break down. Using Priority Over Time to APS and Priority Queues is essential, but causes issues in ...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Addition to Citi Standard Password length of 12 Characters

As to the previous idea I submitted, please note the following for Citi Password standards that must be implements to Spectrum Symphony user accounts are : Must be a 12 Character password At least 12 characters in length At least 1 uppercase lette...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Future consideration

Citi has a policy of minimum password of 12 Characters

IBM Spectrum Symphony currently accepts a 1-character password, this is not to Citi Standard and does not comply to Citi Security standards. This password length needs to be implemented so the admin user and other users have a minimum password Len...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica databases for NRS v3

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica instances. We run NRS 3.x and early implementations were very unreliable with silent failures. nzdr does not give any information on state of the tables in the replica. We develop...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted