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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).


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Allow resource limit ELIGIBLE_PEND_JOBS usage for APPS

I would like to have a limit ELIGIBLE_PEND_JOBS for the consumer APPS. The reason is an application which needs licenses from a license server. In case of many simultanously dispatched jobs the license server overloads. Up to now the resource limi...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Needs more information

Print Report Wizard functionality in Planning Analtyics for Excel

Client requires to select various elements depending on need, either on the number of project elements which need to be printed out or the number of versions.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Needs more information

Options on disabling ciphers algorithms for CP4D Services

Will need the option to disable some crypto algorithms or be FIPS compliant as this is impacting our deployment security compliance for the organisation. As of right now, we do not have the ability to disable/removed the non compliant crypto algor...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Needs more information

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS015277959
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
29 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Needs more information

About /run/user/$uid

Could you please make "/run/user/$uid" the same for both ssh and interactive jobs? when user logon the host, /run/user/$uid is created by pam_systemd and used for storing files used by running processes for that user. When a user logs out, a...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

Possibility for the testing capabilities that can be used as other usage than compare monotith Cobol to Java/ Cobol from scratch to monolith cobol

The tools could be used for generating Cobol or Java test set for validating any kind of program, refactored or not with no purpose to Transform them with AI (could be a good point for VsCode because zUnit isn't on it). And if it's possible, compa...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Ability to bring your own model to watsonx.ai

A large Federal customer requires the ability to bring their own models to the watsonx platform. The customer builds their own in-house models and their ability to deploy production watsonx.ai use cases will depend on their ability to leverage the...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Needs more information