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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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Fairshare dynamic priority to use job count instead of job slots

The fairshare formula uses job_slots with RUN_JOB_FACTOR. Looking to have a formula that uses a job_count that represents only the number of jobs (excluding the slots or tasks requested per job). A scenario for this is when a queue is set up to ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Improve error messages in case of data model error

During import jobs, item save may generate data model errors but error messages are not explicit for end-users.Here are main messages that would require a change to be more detailed : - Any attribute mandatory / Type "Min occurrence" : "The number...
about 8 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Correct issue with soam work history file and directory ownership

We have an issue with the Symphony Spectrum product where user jobs are submitted using different "run-as" IDs. The IDs are different than the cluster admin ID. Therefore the sessions are failing to write their work history under ego-shared/kernel...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Delivered

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

SD bypass patch

IBM has suggested to implement SD Bypass patch in order to resolve ongoing issue in Citi grid LNPRD cluster. Details of issue is below in form of investigations: We have analyzed the data we collected yesterday and have found the delay in authenti...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Delivered

LSF Complementations in Delaying LDAP Responses

As we know, badmin reconfig checks whether an invalid user is set in lsb.users.But if an LDAP response is very delayed, LSF can only continue to wait for this.LSF does not have a function to reduce the username resolution time, and LSF does not lo...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Requesting for blstat -o

The output of blstat -t and blinfo -G is not easy to parse. We'd like to see LS information as blow. FEATURE SERVICE_DOMAIN TOTAL_INUSE TOTAL_RESERVE TOTAL_FREE OTHERS PROJECT SHARE OWN INUSE RESERVE FREE DEMAND sxe sxSD 126 0 102 72 sx_mem 65.5 %...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

CPU Affinity and Restricting LSF jobs

I am launching jobs on a two socket server each with fourteen cores. Job 1 is using core1/socket1 and job 2 is using core2/socket2 each in exclusive mode. Since both sockets are being used in exclusive mode and since both sockets are in use no add...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Feasibility of multihome Management hosts to support different MTU on network.

We would like IBM to certify below solution for supporting differnet MTU with multiple network cards on Management hosts and different sets of compute hosts where one set of comput hosts has 1500MTU setup and another set of compute hosts has 9000M...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

Extending temp file creation in BQ to include microseconds

The file names are not having the full microseconds. it is stopping with only 3 milliseconds and all the files are getting created with 4 zeroes at the end. node 4 and node 21 tried to create the file with the same name bigQueryTempFile20210415133...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered