Skip to Main Content
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 488

Define OWNERSHIP for group

When using project group, the ownership can only be set to leaf node(i.e., the project), but cannot be set to a group. Samsung want to define SHARES for each project, define OWNERSHIP for group, and don't want to define OWNERSHIP for each project.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Consistent bjobs time format

The time fields that bjobs offers should report in a consistent hh:mm:ss format. While many of our users are math majors, not all of them are adept at converting seconds to hours:minutes:seconds in their head.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Removing resource usage and batch job information from job output

By default, the batch job and resource summary are added to each batch job's output. We would like the ability to either select the information added to the output, or the ability to disable this feature. The following is an example of the informa...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enhance BSub (support bsub -m to specify hosts in a remote cluster)

Enhance bsub to allow job submission to a specific host in a specific cluster using “-m” option. The current “-m” option does not support multi-cluster.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add application profile mgmt to LSF PERL API

Hello, LSF PERL API allows us to manage advanced features likde advance d reservations but application profiles can not be queries. Is it possible to add the ability to query the application profiles fields ? Thanks you
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

blaunch exit code

By design, the exit code of blaunch means whether the job is launched successfully. Here is blaunch example.blaunch my_command & If "my_command" is executed, blaunch will return 0. In another word, blaunch never considers the exit code of "com...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

License Scheduler support for FlexLM feature reservation

Add support for FlexLM feature reservation and users submitting jobs using the LM_PROJECT environment variable. See the official FlexLM documentation to know more about license reservation.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

HA configuration of Node server for db connection

It's about DCH in PA.I'd like to add a new DB connection host as a fail-over one, like EXEC_HOST in wsm_plc.conf. For the platform analytics, it's using vertica.And vertica db consists of some nodes. Let's suppose we have four nodes. DCH host is l...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

License Scheduler design behavior for demand

I'd like to suggest something about LS. Here is a brief description of the parameter LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB. If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y, no matter pending reason, demand increase when the job request license resource. By default, we...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Vertica client version 7.1.3 verification request

Vertica client version 7.1.3 verification request In Vertica client version 7.0.1, there is connection error to Tableau Desktop 9.1. If we try to upgrade Vertica client from 7.0.1 to 7.1.3, we can access to Tableau Desktop 9.1, there is nothing wr...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered