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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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Add bjobs -UF option to bhist(Address in 114254)

Add bjobs -UF option to bhist so that one can specify NOT to automatically wrap the output lines at 80 columns
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

SPSS - Exadat Support for the SPSS Products v20-23

Need an ODBC connection for Exadata. SPSS Support is stating that the connection to Exadata is not certified/supported by IBM. This will place a hard stop on the business partners if they are not able to utilize the SPSS product with the data that...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Delivered

Ldap setting to force username to lower - Hadoop requirement

We have alpha numeric user id's which AD returns as Upper case example 1. when you look up a user "b1234", AD returns "B1234" 2. the cloudera cluster spss analytical server is trying to inter-phase with forces all user id to lowercase 3. When use...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 1 Delivered

Allow application to decide whether lock escalation should occur

Db2 for LUW has an instance-wide configuration parameter DB2_AVOID_LOCK_ESCALATION that controls whether lock escalations occur or applications receive an SQL error. It would be good to have a similar feature in Db2 for z/OS -- of course, not subs...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

To display 'WAITING' state in the WMLA hypersearch rest

In the current set-up, we have Notebook users as high priority and HPO jobs have lower priority (Prasad, can you please provide more details here on the priorities set for Notebooks as well as HPO consumers?). If our GPU cluster is fully occupied ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Out of balance amount for the transaction should show in the out of balance column on each item

Out of balance amount only shows on the 1st credit in the transaction. For transactions that are larger than can fit on the screen at one time, the operator is unable to see if / how much the transaction is still out of balance after changing an i...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 2 Delivered

long-running daemons and cgroups

Vendor daemons are preventing us from implementing cgroups for process accounting. We would like to implement cgroups for process accounting in our LSFcluster to resolve a long standing issue of processes escaping fromLSF control. We have several ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

DataStage Google Big Query Connector to use encrypted credential json file

Macy's is working on moving all our DataWare house to Google BQ. Currently, we have BQ connector on DataStage 11.7.1, but we can only connect to BQ using a flat pure json credential file. According to the policy of our company, flat file cannot be...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Defraging exclusive host

Owned slots are reclaimed even when there is task running on the host. From the support case above, it turned out a designed feature, to defragment a partially host so others can borrow. Some of our apps are critical with relatively long running t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered