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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Add field SLA to job_status2 event in stream file.

Our business processes are based on SLA of the job and we want to do reporting of this job SLA. For job_finish2 event, SLA field is already present but in job_Status2 event in stream files, the SLA field is not present. We are blocked due to this ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

mbatchd log job submission rejection

It is helpful to have job submission rejection logging to log file so we can set up monitor to size the issue and early warning alert of scale of issue
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

LSF should support output/error file path that exists only in a container

As of now LSF cannot handle a scenario where the output/error file path exists only in the container and does not exist on the underlying host where the container is running .For example:bsub -o <path_in_container_only> --app <my_bapp>...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration