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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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allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Asynchronous API and prioritisation rules vs. synchronous requests

Due to the high shortage on GPU and the very high prices of those pieces of hardware, clients wants to optimize genetive AI queries by: Maximising GPU utilisation over time Maintaining the best quality of service, in particular latency and token t...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Automated Deployment of PAW Objects from NonProd to PROD

In an environment where DEV team must not have access to PROD, creating books and applications and setting permissions in DEV environment and pushing them to PROD is not possible in PAW. It will require a human to interact with the PAW UI to do st...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Users should be able to see what changes they are pulliing

Logging on behalf of Epsilon: Users are currently blind - they only see what files were changed, but not what changes are Most other integrations with code repositories like git allow you to review changes before attempting to merge - look someth...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists