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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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Provide Federation Server support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to use Federation Server with Greenplum. They have the ODBC driver working but are concerned about performance with no pushdown. They would like IBM to provide a certified Greenplum Driver
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

if there is not job tmp directory, RES will re-create it

To have better control over RES created files like .1513002449.181663317.acct , which are responsible for proper accounting of HPC jobs. Currently these intermediate files are created under directories defined through LSB_JOB_TMPDIR or LSF_TMP_DIR...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

metadata enrichment filter

The metadata enrichment screens in WKC 4.5 do not have a sort option for the business term column. The stated reason is that more than one term can be assigned. The filter option can filter on business terms and data classes but not for blank. Add...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Prevention of Spectrum LSF over-preemption

The current LSF preemption design does not prevent over-preemption (i.e. preempt more jobs than needed). When the preemption of a large low job takes some time like several minutes, the following incoming high priority jobs could preempt other run...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[RFE][Internal] - Customizing format of all log messages in Symphony for auditing purpose

To fulfill requirements from regulators there has to be an opportunity to adjust the format of the entries (like time format, time zone, custom text,…) – just like it is possible for soam components with their log4j property files.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

Filtering navigational tree in PAW

Filtering navigational tree in PAW would help users in quicker menu navigation - they could find the desired objects without cumbersome browsing the whole tree. User experience would benefit a lot with this solution
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Add schema support to DVS

In our test environments we have the same Db2 tables on the same Db2 subsystem under different schemas. This allows for multiple teams to be testing against different sets of data, and potentially different version of table DDL at the same time. B...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Slowness in Hostfactory return of large number of hosts

Hostfactory is currently stopping hosts one by one due to the egosh logic. This in return slows down the return of the hosts. We need to have a batch close/reclaim egosh command.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered