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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.
20 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Needs more information

Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
4 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
10 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

Implement usage of DS8000 TCT feature to offload disk copies to TS7700 without CPU usage

Hello, We have seen in an IBM présentation that it's possible to make copie of flashcopy disk to TS7700 without using CPU on the mainframe using the TCT feature of DS8000 and TS7700 Is it possible to have this feature in Recovery Expert to offload...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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...
6 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

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