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 Symphony

Showing 257

AWS spot eviction mechanism does not trigger onServiceInterrupt() event

CVA is using spot servers on AWS. The application is highly depending on the onServiceInterrupt() to properly shutdown the task when spot eviction happens. If the running task can not receive the onServiceInterrupt() and close its output files pro...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

support installing primary host in silent mode

When moving Symphony clusters to AWS/Azure, not allowing to install primary host(first one) in a silent mode such as Windows bat script is really unfriendly to us. And brough us lots of inconvenience and extra work. Can you make it happen in 7.3 a...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Running Symphony on EKS

Since Citi's use case is running whole symphony in container,, Citi to log a new RFE for entire symphony be deployed in AWS EKS and let Steve/Geoff know RFE#..
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory , But While having executable audit log files may not be ideal, this is the designed behavior of EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION. A...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Improved logging for SD TCP Backlog to aid troubleshooting

Requirements: Dynamic turn on/off with the feature being enabled by default. Log Format: Similar to VEMKD, may include more metrics such as queue size Data to be logged:1. Acceptance rate per channel 2. Performance of the accept (i.e. SSL handshak...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

CVA on AWS: Hostfactory: Redirect workload of an application to a specific resource group by its resource tag

This request was raised by our client during a CVA on AWS implementation discussion. The 1st case: 1. At minimum, they want to have 2 resource groups created 2. The 1st resource group, is a resource group which contains servers with a fixed capa...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Certify for Citi - Symphony cluster configuration verification tools/features

Symphony configuration files to be audited and verified: We have a question from auditing about Symphony cluster configuration verification. The auditing is looking for any features/tools from Symphony that periodically check/verify Symphony clust...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Planned for future release

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration