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Spectrum LSF

Ascertain Reservable Numeric Shared resources inside custom plugin

We are using a custom LSF scheduler plugin for scheduling purposes. We plan to use the pre reservation (greedy in particular) feature. Here, some numeric shared resources are to be marked as reservable in LSF configuration (such numeric resources ...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

Add a new bjobs filter about CPU

Hello, Bjobs is providing information about MEMORY and CPU usage. Example:bjobs -o "jobid cpu_peak average_cpu_efficiency cpu_peak_reached_duration" 9242578 JOBID CPU_PEAK AVERAGE_CPU_EFFICIENCY CPU_PEAK_REACHED_DURATION 9242578 1.22 2.58% 65 seco...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Under review

Add an option to `bjobs` to list pending jobs in their Fairshare scheduling dispatch order

the statement on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=bjobs-description#bjobs_output__title__2, that "Pending jobs are displayed in the order in which they are considered for dispatch", does not apply in the case of Fairshare sche...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction Under review

Add global radio buttons under "edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab) --> adjust the option in the "users show users column"

Under "head and shoulders->edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab)" there are multiple sections each with its own togglable options. If an admin wants to toggle all or some of these sections for all users then they ...
24 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration

Improve handling of long running lmstat

Currently, the LM_STAT_TIMEOUT parameter handling both lmstat connection time out (via lmstat -t < LM_STAT_TIMEOUT > and the length of time blcollect allows lmstat to run before termination. There should be two parameters to configure: 1) lm...
27 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Future consideration

Add LMSTAT_PATH parameter to each ServiceDomain

Due to various compatibility issues between different flexlm version especially with 11.18 above, it is necessary to use the same lmstat version as the Vendor Daemon and thus the need to potentially configure each ServiceDomain with a different LM...
27 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Not under consideration

Need to disable LWS File endpoint

Dear Team,we are currently introducing the new LSF Web Services (LWS) in our LSF environment. Due to the overall concept how the environment shall be used, we would like to prevent users from transfering files via the File-Endpoint of the LWS-API....
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration

Bjobs/bhist pending duration data

Quite often I have to look into complaints from users about their jobs being slow to start. If the job is still pending I can see why and explain that they are waiting for slots or licenses. But if the job has already run all I can see it the subm...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Planned for future release

Automatically removing license tokens from jobs

LSF license scheduler assumes that a job that has a resource request for a license token will consume the corresponding license feature for the duration of the job execution. Unfortunately, users can waste license tokens by using the wrong queue o...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Planned for future release

Enhance LM_PROJECT support in RTM

When debugging job issues, it's helpful to see which LM_PROJECT the specific job is using.When identifying job success and failure trends, it's helpful to see the project names.For planning purposes, it's useful to look at license usage by LM_PROJ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration