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    Improve handling of long running lmstat

    Currently, the LM_STAT_TIMEOUT parameter handling both lmstat connection time out (via lmstat -t < LM_STAT_TIMEOUT > and the length of time blcollect allows lmstat to run before termination. There should be two parameters to configure: 1) lm...
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

    First-Available Reservation Mode: reserve every alternative resource combination for the head-of-queue job and dispatch on whichever frees first

    Summary Add a scheduling/reservation mode in which the top-priority pending job (thenext job scheduled to run) reserves resources across ALL of its alternativeresource combinations simultaneously, rather than committing its reservationto a single ...
    2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

    With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

    (On behalf of PNC Bank) FTM has default podManagementPolicy of OrderedReady. The Product should support a parallel start for stateful sets.

    The default of OrderedReady forces the sequential start of a stateful set. The product should support a parallel start of all pods.
    18 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Under review

    Limit number of job modifications with bmod

    Hi,we allow the bmod/btop/bbottom commands for all users/jobs. However, we are facing 2 times the problem that the bmodbtop/bbottom command was extensively used e.g. on one job ID. This slows down the job scheduling interval massively up to a fail...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Compute node health in LSF ResourceMap

    We would like to see the compute node health in ResourceMap as below. root@bsubexit1 conf]# bhosts -R "health==ok" HOST_NAME STATUS JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV bsubexit1 ok - 4 0 0 0 0 0 [root@bsubexit1 conf]# lsload -R "health==ok" HOST_NA...
    2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Needs more information

    Include transform feature from Natural to Java

    Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

    SQL command to set environment variable, not just some onconfig parameters

    Motivation: In order for some queries to work, I had to remember to set some environment variables at the shell level. In my case: PSORT_NPROCS PSORT_DBTEMP DBDATE I know I can use "set environment" for a limited number of onconfig paramet...
    about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

    VSCode interface for ADDI

    VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

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