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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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[EGO][System] - Improve cluster restart speed on large clusters with unavailable hosts

It took long time to restart the master in a large scale cluster, even there is no workload running. The problem is more significant for clusters with many scavenged hosts.An example is in a ~2000 scavenging hosts cluster, it could take >30min ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered

Failover - Request fast recovery when Symphony nodes fail - NUDT

The customer is running real time big data analytics application on Symphony SOA grid, the application has 3 characters:1. large task input size(2.5MB)2. low latency, task round trip is 100ms3. fast recovery, tasks recover time less than 5s in cas...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Make vemkd more robust against file server glitches

Refer to RFC #4516
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Delivered

DOC - Document full message body of each of Symphony SNMP events

Need to have the full text of SNMP events including information about data fields going into the text message.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Delivered

IWA: Adding a column in a table used on datamart shouldn't invalidate the datamart

If you alter the schema of a fact table used on datamart, adding a new column, the datamart is invalidated and you're forced to republish the datamart and reload the mart. The request is about not invalidating the datamart if you just add a new co...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

[RFE][MS] - Improve LIM communication to handle MTU size

Symphony (i.e. EGO) relies on OS MTU configuration. When LIM exceeds the OS MTU limitation, LIM/ELIM data is not transported. Provide a mechanism to allow LIM communication to transport the data when the LIM data exceeds the MTU size.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Delivered

[Security] - Active Directory Single Sign-On for ego & soam utilities

We use SOAM utilities such as soamdeploy and soamreg in PowerShell scripts to upload new Symphony applications to our clusters. When we tried uploading applications on our test cluster with the Active Directory security model installed, the two ut...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

[Security][CE] - Hybrid Symphony / Active Directory integration security model

The Symphony Active Directory integration plugin removes all Symphony users with the exception of Admin, so that only AD users are available. This means that it is extremely difficult to migrate an existing cluster from the default Symphony securi...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Windows 2012 support on Sym5.1 - Citigroup

We are currently running PROD in Sym5.1. Win 2012 support is essential to utilize newer capacity with higher memory sizes. Though Sym6.1.1 has Win2012 support we cannot afford a quick migration in PROD. Do inform us at the earliest of when this su...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

[Diagnostic][Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve error messages of Kerberos authentication between SSM and VEMKD (No GUI effort)

Improve Kerberos error messages to provide some detail of why a failure took place.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered