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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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Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable WCA to read from multiple repos and help in referencing the files across repos

When WCA is able to read multiple repos, it becomes useful for the user to reference multiple files and leverage the different combinations for code generations. For example, I have a linux code base in one repo . My second repo is a test framewor...

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Improved support for Sections in Refactoring Assistant

Currently when refactoring Cobol code where there is a "PERFORM <section>" statement, the refactored code does not pull in the SECTION headings which causes the PERFORM lines to fail.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI Workspace creation via CLI

To build an automated method for onboarding users, assigning privileges, and adding them to respective workspaces appropriately, the customer is seeking a CLI command to create workspaces instead of using the GUI in the configuration server.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Identified duplicate section of the codes across programs should be suggested/recommended as candidate for refactoring

Once the duplicate section of the codes across programs are identified, then RA should suggest this as a candidate to create a service.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration