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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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Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

User Interface for Published View-Only Data Catalog

A simplified, view only UI should be deployed for data consumers, analysts, and report developers who do not otherwise operate within the CP4D environment. The interface should be web based and light weight in nature with a flexible search functio...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

PAW: Combining stacked bar charts and line charts

No possibility to combine a stacked bar chart with a line chart in PAW e.g. comparing planning version 1 in form of a stacked bar chart with planning version 2 in form of a line chart (current workaround is a PAFE report)
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Control Connections Via Profiles Using Client Properties

We would like more granular control over connections. Currently, the only way to do this is via a profile using an IP address. Unfortunately, the IP address is the static IP of a client. That client may house multiple webservices. If only 1 of tho...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Machine Learning Standardisation of multiple attributes in PIM V12

Recently, we have learning that machine learning standardisation is applicable on a single attribute only in PIM V12. By looking at Product Descriptor Attributes related to our brand, we have more than 8 attributes that would show to public straig...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered