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Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review

Support for Credential Guard when using Kerberos authentincation

Kerberos authentication should be possible when Credential Guard is enabled in Windows. Specially since it is be enabled by default in Windows 11. Lack of this functionality is basically a violation of support for Windows 11 and Kerberos on the pl...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Add INCLUDE file capabilities into LSF License Scheduler configuration

The ability to specify the License Scheduler configuration in multiple include files where each include file contains the separate configuration of each independent software vendor. For example, #INCLUDE /path/cadence.lsf.license_scheduler #INCLUD...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Planned for future release

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 5 Planned for future release

Disabling performance monitoring throughout the entire application.

When doing performance testing, we want to eliminate anything that could possibly affect performance. One recurring question is whether the application's internal performance monitoring has any adverse impact. Without a way to disable the applicat...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 6 Under review

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Planned for future release