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    Native LSF support for Kubernetes

    K8's support similar to support for Docker would be helpful for teams using LSF and K8's for their CI/CD pipeline.
    21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Needs more information

    IDAA loader SMF type 115 subtype 216 class 5

    We are looking at using the Db2 Analytics Accelerator for our core SMF data . MQ 9.4 has a capability where it collects queue level statistics in SMF115 subtype 216 data. The data collected is the equivalent data of issuing a queue status command....
    3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Under review

    DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

    This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

    Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

    Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
    6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

    allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

    due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
    3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Merge RES_REQ also when alternative RES_REQs are used

    Currently settings from the app-profile are not merges with the job/queue settings when a alternative RES_REQ is provided in the submission command (bsub). We require this because we have a need to specify alternative RES_REQs in the submission an...
    7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

    Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

    Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
    10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

    use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

    We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

    When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
    7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

    Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

    When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

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