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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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Run SparkCleanup service per individual Instance group instead of centrally

We would like SparkCleanup service to run as execution user of each individual Instance Group, rather than centrally as cluster admin. This will avoid the need to do preliminary work to make sure execution users of SIG are part of cluster admin un...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Delivered

Request for bjobs -pei to show blocked pending jobs as ineligible pending

The ability to view a snapshot of the batch queue separated into running, pending eligible, and pending ineligible is very useful. bjobs -pei provides the ability to separate the queue into these states. But, bjobs categorizes jobs that can not mo...
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

Search function in a project could be better

I create a hundred of notebooks, that's say there are 2 files which named "spark-001" and "spark-002", when I want to find one of those 2 files, I can't find any one if I type "001" or "002" in search bar, it is very inconvenient for user to searc...
over 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Delivered

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Partition Read is not working in 9.1.2 for DB2 11.1 (LUW)

Partition Read feature in DataStage DB2 Connector stage is not working in 9.1.2 when connected to DB2 11.1 (LUW) PMR Resolution: IIS 9.1.2 does not currently support "DB2 v11.1.0.0". Right now for IIS 9.1.2, DB2 support versions are DB2 9.5.x, 9.7...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Return sql warning when zero/spaces are returned for invalid values in host files.

DVM allows us to turn on parameters like SQLENGIVZERO and SQLENGDFSHRC to handle situations where the underlying record contains invalid values or is shorter than the table structure. In cases where DVM converts values under the covers, a warning ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Display non generic error message when item import fails

When a user attempts to create items via the Import button in the Persona UI and the import fails, the error message displayed is completely generic and does not inform the user why it has failed. We receive the message 'The Job did not complete s...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Tool to convert lsb.events/lsb.acct/lsb.streams file to JSON format

We would like to request a tool that converts the lsb.events, lsb.acct, and lsb.streams files into JSON format. The default format of the files make them very difficult to parse. I have discussed this issue with Jin Ma during CORAL F2F.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered