Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results: Spectrum LSF

Showing 128 of 1688

Array job maximum running jobs should be honored across multiclustered environments

Our users submit array jobs, but due to many factors may want to limit the number of running tasks at a time, not only from the source cluster, but total running jobs of that array for all clusters involved ( we have many clusters that use multicl...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add a 'bsub -Gl limit_name' option to separate Fairshare Assignment from the Limit also add a default limit pattern to use if ONE_UG_TREE does not find a matching limit

We have many cases, where we have limits for users, but we also want to want to apply a fairshare group for the job to arrive at a base allocation. Unfortunately, with ONE_UG enabled, if the Fairshare Group does not have a corresponding Limit, not...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Correct on Design Flaw in Session Scheduler

Currently the Session Manager and Service Director operate in the same CGROUP on the first execution host which causes a race condition that if a task on the first execution host pushes the memory use above the memory limit (aka mem-eater process)...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Provide Access to Job Buckets for Analysis

Currently RTM contains quite a bit of information on current cluster state, but it provides limited information about the state of the scheduler, what job buckets exists, and the dispatch rate from these various buckets. Create an interface that p...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job can we talk on this. It seems user get notification only XX min before kill ie customer number Today in RTM we have only 1 option say select % bu...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered