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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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Consistent bjobs time format

The time fields that bjobs offers should report in a consistent hh:mm:ss format. While many of our users are math majors, not all of them are adept at converting seconds to hours:minutes:seconds in their head.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

HA configuration of Node server for db connection

It's about DCH in PA.I'd like to add a new DB connection host as a fail-over one, like EXEC_HOST in wsm_plc.conf. For the platform analytics, it's using vertica.And vertica db consists of some nodes. Let's suppose we have four nodes. DCH host is l...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Ability to set concurrentAccessResolution when methods executeBatch() and executeQuery() are invoked from java.sql.Statement

Our database configuration has CUR_COMMIT = AVAILABLE. With this setting, you need to explicitly request for currently committed behavior to see the results that are currently committed. When using the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, thi...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Lock LSF daemon's memory pages to prevent swapping them out

As part of the discussion about the which NICE value should LSF daemon use, another idea to improve LSF resilience and consistency came up. See the PMR related. LSF daemons should never send pages to swap. When this happens, and a fix pack replaci...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic SSM Resource Group History Files to SFS

Dynamic SSM resource groups work well in Symphony 7 but for one issue. By definition a dynamic resource group does not contain management hosts but consists of regular compute hosts. These hosts do not know of the shared file system where session ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

SPSS statistics - Problem with mixed Output to word-document

Until version SPSS 15 the output from SPSS to WORD was with format for pictures with "Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF)". The result in WORD was excellent as good as in SPSS. Since version SPSS 16 and later the format ist "PNG". With this format the quali...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Affinity is not consistent with tasks and slot allocation

We have defined a default affinity configuration at queue level to map one slot to one core: "affinity[core(1)]". However, if user submits a job allocating more than one core per task, bsub -n 1 -R "affinity[core(4)]" for instance, the slot-based ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

INFORMIX Servers Management table Auto Repair Tool

Database management table of (systables, sysindexes, syscolumns, etc..) information is damaged,The repair to us function when the consistency has become not be maintained.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Valid n to Factor Analysis

This is a basic thing which is missing in EFA and PCA outputs: nowehere in the output is written on how many valid cases the output is based on. If selecting variables with several missing values here and there (and not selecting the "replace miss...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional style - "New Conditional style" behave consistently

Conditional style - make "New Conditional style" behave consistently
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration