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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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one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Jupyterlab notebook availability to switch conda environments

Currently when users work on the command line via ssh, they have a solution for creating user virtual environments and self install packages at their will.However, when they work from Jupyterlab, things are a mess:1. users don't have access to con...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Delivered

Enable external IDE interface to python interpreter inside a running image

We are trying to use remote interpreters to hook up external IDE's like pycharm to a running environment. Ideally similar to how there is a pod that is set up to allow ssh for files, there could be a similar pod that allows us to point an interp...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Ssh into Watson Studio Cloud Notebook

Enable a mode to ssh into a Jupyter Notebook. The runtime cannot operate as a ssh server. If you work with your working laptop you cannot even reverse ssh into it due to firewall limitations. The only possibility is to go through an external devic...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Availability of direct communication to the mbatch daemon from programming interface

In our own pam module we use the function lsb_openjobinfo to identify if a user has a running job on the node or not. We do this to decide if the user can establish a connection to the node (usually the ssh connection at the beginning of a job). U...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF LIM needs better support for Intel Xeon-Phi based compute systems

LSF lim uses up far more computation time on a Xeon Phi self-booting system than it does on standard Xeon nodes. Here is an example. After 5 days (update time set to 60s) on the Xeon Phi ekl001 over 300 min have piled up, while the standard Xeon s...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

bsub should use pipes for standard file descriptors

Details are in the referenced PMR, but the summary is that since bsub uses sockets instead of files for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR certain types of submissions that access /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr will fail to execute properly when ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration