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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.

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Add a new option to 'bkill' to kill only pending jobs

The current bulk kill option does not provide enough granularity to kill pending jobs without a finish event, and kill running jobs with a finish event. This option will allow us to speed up the process of cluster maintenance where running jobs, w...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Adopt the fleet api for Amazon Web Services to improve resource/host types acquisition times.

Current wait times are troublesome when requesting multiple instances of different types. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-fleet-manage-thousands-of-on-demand-and-spot-instances-with-one-request/
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Make License Scheduler Container Aware

Presently, when a job runs on an LSF host while using a container technology, the hostname that is posted to "lmstat" is generally not the name of the host running the LSF jobs. Therefore, as container use becomes more prevalent, License Scheduler...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

PAW: Selection type with selected subsets (members) in Exploration Point

It would be important in an exploration point that the subsets (members) can also be specified in the selection type. Not all subsets, but selected ones.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Supporting earlier version of .net in Symphony 7

Symphony 7.1 stops supporting .Net version earlier than 4.0. However per Microsoft documents .Net 3.5 will not be end of life in any time soon. Providing support of .Net 3.5 in symphony 7 and future version will help .Net applications on earlier v...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 0 Delivered

Tomcat version 6.0.43 bundled in Symphony 7.0 needs update to 6.0.44 to comply with bank compliance/audit. - Wells Fargo

Our Symphony 7.1 install incudes the Tomcat version 6.0.43 installed and running. Internal bank audit/controls requires us to upgrade any Tomcat versiosn to 6.0.44 or file an exception as to why we cannot get into compliance. Please let me know wh...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

R 3.1.1 & 3.2.2 Support on Symphony 6.1 & 7.1 & LSF 9.1

OS: Linux SUSE 11 SP2/3
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Disable melim and elim (DUP 23728)

In 6.1.1, there are more elim process added for MapReduce, For the user like us not using MapReduce and Harvesting feature request to disable/enable elims and melim it with parameter
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Delivered

Symphony 6.1.1 with LSF 9.1.1 multihead setup support for SLES 11sp3

Big Financial server customer requires SLES 11 sp3 support for Symphony 6.1.1. The customer plans to start a Symphony/LSF multihead POC soon using 6.1.1 on SLES 11sp2 but will be soon upgrading their systems to SLES 11 sp3.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Delivered

File Transfers for Large Files are Unreliable with /tmp folder too small

2020-02-18: PSA should log an RFE to provide a setting in pmc.conf to allow the Application Center administrator to define a 'scratch' directory other than /tmp.Also we don't understand why we can not submit a job with template cmd when the /tmp i...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered