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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Spectrum LSF

Showing 484

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

bjobs -o all

Currently there is a large list of -o options, which are hugely beneficial. We have a large bjobs -o <long list> -json report that is frequently run for metrics and query reduction (to provide an API to get cached data) but we have to update...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 3 Delivered

LSF integration with latest DCGM

LSF provides integration with DCGM so that GPU usage data can be collected in lsb.acct log file. However, the latest LSF only supports DCGM v1.7.2, which goes with CUDA10.For customs like us, we used CUDA11, which needs DCGM v2.1.4, and we would l...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Eliminating swap as the factor in the threshold definition

Using the Smart Memory limits in LSF with the parameter "LSB_MEMLIMIT_ENF_CONTROL" , there should be an option to define inly MEM threshold and exclude the SWAP threshold.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Need to submit jobs from x86_64 systems to CORAL systems

The IBM supercomputer is only one part of the computing ecosystem in the center. We need the ability to submit jobs back into the cluster from other platforms in the center that are x86_64.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Provide capability to view jobs submission environment

In prior releases, if an administrator needed to investigate a submission script, they could goto the LSF info directory and review the job script. However, this is not longer possible using the in memory algorithm. This functionality needs to be ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

cluster job submission slow and child mbatchd process stuck

Per the PMR mentioned, Discussing with the Dev team at IBM, the "bread/bstatus" command is possible to add to the child mbatchd to query.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

A forwarded job can not submit jobs to submission cluster.

When a job is forwarded to a remote cluster and running on a server host, it wants to submit some jobs to the submission cluster by sourcing the submission cluster's LSF environment. However, the job will be submitted to the execution cluster, ins...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.