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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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Ability to use different sim binary for different application

We are implementing one GRID solution for Wells fargo and has one Grid in production, bcp, uat and dev enviornment where we host multiple business lines totaling over 50 different symphony applications. As we are running in to different issues wit...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Delivered

Displays value of LIMITS in blstat

Here is the output of blstat. [root@vlm1 conf]# blstatFEATURE: lic1 SERVICE_DOMAIN: LanServer TOTAL_INUSE: 0 TOTAL_RESERVE: 0 TOTAL_FREE: 10 OTHERS: 0 PROJECT SHARE OWN INUSE RESERVE FREE DEMAND 44 32.8 % 0 0 0 2 0 default 25.0 % 0 0 0 3 0 33 17.2...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Due to the network glitch, vemkd on primary master does not go down while the new vemkd on the backup master is starting

1) The VEMKD on the failover host cannot properly start as the previous VEMKD still holds the lock on the status file. 2) When the network glitch is over, the master takes over and the failover lim shuts down the VEMKD by sending a SIGTERM3) The V...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

To enable PA9.1.2 to use oracle as FNM database

We are planning to enable FNM with PA9 and would like to use oracle as FNM database. We understand that currently PA9 support only MS SQL as FNM database however we are planning to implement oracle as FNM database due to following reasons : 1. ST ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

HA for Whole GRID Processing Element - NUDT

Customer's Whole GRID Processing Element including: 1. the externel socket streaming data source2. a pre-processing node3. a processing Symphony cluster4. a co-process node5. a post processing Symphony cluster6. the element output streaming data i...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1/6.1.0.1 3 Delivered

[EGO][System] - Improve cluster restart speed on large clusters with unavailable hosts

It took long time to restart the master in a large scale cluster, even there is no workload running. The problem is more significant for clusters with many scavenged hosts.An example is in a ~2000 scavenging hosts cluster, it could take >30min ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered

Failover - Request fast recovery when Symphony nodes fail - NUDT

The customer is running real time big data analytics application on Symphony SOA grid, the application has 3 characters:1. large task input size(2.5MB)2. low latency, task round trip is 100ms3. fast recovery, tasks recover time less than 5s in cas...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

IDAA's support of CAST function for Unicode to EBCDIC conversion.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Customers who want to accelerate their EBCDIC query applications and tables using IDAA. 3. Description: Netezza stores data in Unicode UTF-8. Currently we can 'add' and 'load' DB2 for z/OS EBCDIC tables to IDAA,...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA's support of recursive SQL syntax.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Manufacturing customers who have “Parts” table which uses hierarchical navigation, using DB2 for z/OS. 3. Description: At this moment recursive SQL syntax ( recursive common table expression ) is not support...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ticket CS0057901 Issue with Spanish Document Upload size 20 MB

Ticket CS0057901 Email attached All other set of option tried is 1) Compressed Size PDF Reduced size by 56% to 8.4 MB 2) Change of Adobe doc properties to 1.4 3) Split of Doc into multiple docs
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered