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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Need to disable LWS File endpoint

Dear Team,we are currently introducing the new LSF Web Services (LWS) in our LSF environment. Due to the overall concept how the environment shall be used, we would like to prevent users from transfering files via the File-Endpoint of the LWS-API....
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Not under consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New configuration parameter to enable sbspace logging by default

Instances that are replicated must have smart large objects logged so that they are copied to secondary servers. This is not the default, and one of the following is required when setting up the sbspace: onspaces -s -S ... -Df LOGGING=ONonspaces -...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

Bjobs/bhist pending duration data

Quite often I have to look into complaints from users about their jobs being slow to start. If the job is still pending I can see why and explain that they are waiting for slots or licenses. But if the job has already run all I can see it the subm...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release

Automatically removing license tokens from jobs

LSF license scheduler assumes that a job that has a resource request for a license token will consume the corresponding license feature for the duration of the job execution. Unfortunately, users can waste license tokens by using the wrong queue o...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release

Enhance LM_PROJECT support in RTM

When debugging job issues, it's helpful to see which LM_PROJECT the specific job is using.When identifying job success and failure trends, it's helpful to see the project names.For planning purposes, it's useful to look at license usage by LM_PROJ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

Allow a job to request both Project Mode Fast Dispatch resources and Cluster Mode resources at the same time

Customers have demanding license requirements that vary over time. One of the requirements is that license reservation and allocation by cluster works fine in most cases, but for some important and constrained licenses, project mode is the way to ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Enhancement request to lsfproxyd

We have workfloads from dozen of users which continously generating very high and sustained job submission requests. Whenever they are starting their work, the grid may grind down to a halt or very slow to process any other request. We want a tier...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Future consideration