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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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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.

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Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Symphony HostFactory launch instance based on time

We request HF launce instances including spot instance based on time and terminated based on with optional time and workload
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Future consideration

Support Symphony HostFactory CLI

Symphony HostFactory CLI support, like: 1. Get current requestor, provider list, and detail json file for each requestor, provider. 2. symA and all requestors running state 3. Apply new json file to requestor and provider. 4. Change HostFactory de...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

HostFactory GUI improvement

HostFactory/Cloud GUI improvementConfiguration:1. Add configuration change for requestors with application list check button 2. Change provider configuration json file to the form with pull down values and explanation for each parameters3. Add act...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release