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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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Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Auto-update "Contained Relationships" of Physical Data model / Schema Relationships

In Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM), relationships can be defined between Physical Data Models (PDMs) and Implemented Data Resource (IDR) schemas. These relationships can have "Contained Relationships" which associate design tables with IDR tables wi...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

More efficient ISALite Check for IMAM import area connections.

Part of the ISALite general health check includes a check for InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) Import Area connections. Specifically, it test the connection for every single Import Area to ensure they're still valid/functioning. This quick...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

.Net Core Support for GridSync API

Best if we can do .Net 8 directly. we would like to use GridSync for Data Caching and unify both workload and data entry point by using symphony API. so that we can make the workload entirely portable without have to manage different data solution...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

IBM DataStage support PostgreSQL

The "official document or information for IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL 13.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x" could not get now. Same situaation as PostgreSQL 14.x.
over 4 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration