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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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LSF job can fail to copy an input file, but report this as successful job

LSF reports the job as Done successfully while the input file is not copied due to any reason.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Config option for full path to eadmin/eauth/esub executables

Allow the system administrator to specify full paths (outside of the LSF install) to "external" programs/scripts that are designed to be customized. When LSF is packaged as an RPM, overwriting files provided by the RPM is considered bad practice. ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF is not starting correctly with LDAP duing node boots

Every time we reboot nodes LSF jobs will switch from RUN to PEND status. We have found knowledge base document that states using LDAP with LSF is a known issue. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSENRW_4.2.1/release_notes/known_issues.ht...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow download after job completion through Desktop Client to be requested when submitting job from web portal

After hotfix to Desktop Client 10.0.1 a filter for files to download after job completion is displayed in the submission form also on the web portal, but it will have no effect, as only jobs submitted from the Desktop Client get downloaded.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[DUP81511] Change the structure of the shared SSM history folder, to allow secure use bu different execution users and groups

Platform Symphony (Spectrum Symphony) SSMs keep the sessions history files in a shared location, for example /gpfs/platform/soam/work/history Before PS 7, all apps SSMs were filling history/ folder directly, causing it to store 1000s of files and ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Server File capability for Desktop Client

The same submission form in the Desktop Client does not include the ability to specify a server file as an input or include file - as opposed to the Application Center web portal. This should be easy to implement, as both forms are otherwise ident...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF Desktop Client - Filter and Compression for Download Result feature

Download Result feature needs a configurable filter for which files from the job folder should be downloaded upon completion of job. The files that match the filter should also be compressed before transferring them.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

Improve speed of sourcing for LSF environment

There's ways to reduce the time of sourcing for LSF environment. If we use "grep -F" in the cshrc.lsf, it may give some performance gain.Exactly line 181set LIBC_SO=`ldconfig -p | grep libc.so.6 | sed 's/.*=>//'` This may depends on the load of...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

HPU: support for common templates for multiple selects RFE 90963

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=90963 When the same OUTDDN is used in several selects, HPU accepts to write in the same file the result of several select statements. We use a template to avoid having to a...
over 9 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Delivered