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 Subscribe
Status Submitted
Workspace Spectrum Conductor
Components Version 2.5.1
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in  both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with the overall health of underlying infrastructure, such as high CPU, memory, and disk or network I/O, the platform admin can terminate all the executor and driver processes associated with the cluster by using egosh activity kill -t <activity-of-spark-driver>  command. This allows the platform admin a way to kill abusing processes. However, such method of killing driver and executor processes does not exist in case of spark cluster running in client mode. 

I am requesting IBM to add a feature to the Spectrum Conductor, so that the platform admin can terminate all the spark executors created for a client mode spark cluster. Adding such feature will allow platform team an ability to kill such processes when such clusters abuse system resources. 

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.