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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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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


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Enabling a federated view in IDAA, across tables in different subsystems in different data sharing groups for analytics purpo

Rabobank run the majority of their Business Intelligence workloads for the Payments and Savings domain off the mainframe. The data sources for the workload are in multiple subsystems across multiple data sharing groups - some in separate sysplexes...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Performance Optimization for Java IMS

In a Java Cobol Mix Environment: Reusing connections to databases and using Connection pools has become a quasi standard in all "application server" environments, especially when application servers use connections to databases to ensure transacti...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support Symphony 6.1.1 Advanced Edition on GPFS 4.1 for MapReduce with Hadoop Connector

Citi requires the compatibility of Symphony 6.1.1 Advanced Edition with GPFS 4.1 for MapReduce jobs using the Hadoop connector.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

PAC Upload and Download Limitation - (Increase file size)

System: Platform LSF - PACActor: Users need to upload/download larger than 5GB files. A big segment of our Engineers use a few applications that at times create fairly big input files (ie, Abaqus / Ansys). They use such input files to submit their...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

Doc -- how to turn off graph generation for specific job attributes (application, host group, job group, license project, project, queue, user group, user, SLA).

Our cluster has Jobs Down Collection status many times a day due to about ~500K graphs and data sources and 90% of them from the old and unused job groups. We have reset “User, User Group, Job Group, Project, License Project Purge Frequency” param...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

PAC responds slowly when job directory has a large number of files

In current design, PAC tries to get the information for all files under job directory firstly. And then it displays these information in browser.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

[clearcase] Option to run setview from daemons.wrap as job owner

Enhance daemons.wrap to call "ct service -exec sbatchd" as the job's owner userid. Currently, this is done as root.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

[Security] - Kerberos Authentication Support on PowerLinux

Currently IBM Platform Symphony supports Kerberos on x86 Linux, but not on PowerLinux. As a hardware and software big data total solution, there are many opportunities Platform Symphony running on PowerLinux. Customer need enterprise security feat...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

LSF option -b generates abusive LS tokens reservation

When jobs requesting a resource managed by LS and waiting for start-date (-b). LS reserve by default tokens for the pending for Start-date jobs. The consequence is increasing of dispatch time for jobs belonging to the same License project on diffe...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Different signal(s) requested for job termination when the new Smart Cpu enforcement function terminates a job

The new Smart Cpu function (LSB_CPU_USAGE_ENF_CONTROL) in LSF issues a SIGXCPU to terminate jobs in violation of their cpu reservations. Instead we request LSF issue a soft kill followed by a hard kill. Something similar to SIGTERM followed by SIG...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered