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Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
about 3 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL should be supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console

As of Cognos Analytics v12.1.1, PostgreSQL is still not supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console. It is a supported datasource for Audit: PostgreSQL audit deployment and model - IBM Documentation
about 7 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
about 13 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

LSF to track and report IO usage per job

Disk space is a valuable resource like memory or GPU/CPU/slots. Many IC design applications consume significant disk space when writing simulation results to disk. Tracking disk usage or I/O rate **PER JOB** will allow cluster administrators to mo...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information