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Provide a standard Apple installer package

The silent installer that ships for SPSS Statistics for Mac OS is widely known to be poorly working and problematic. Further more, it requires a system Java runtime to be present even though the application itself does not need a system Java to be...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Delivered

Enable bjobs to report peak CPU efficiency

Need to be able to retrieve the peak CPU efficiency from the bjobs command at the end of the run.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

Add bkill option that will set the job status to DONE rather than EXIT

Currently all jobs terminated via bkill are set to status EXIT. With the growing usage of bioinformatics tools and applications that were traditionally run on dedicated servers being integrated into use on HPC resources there is a shifting paradig...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

The LSFProxy does not print a 'total' count as 'badmin perfmon view' does leading to misreading of the number of total events since restarting

In 'badmin perfmon view', we always are able to see the total events for a specific output class. This is not possible in 'badmin lsfproxyd status' output. Please add that output. Specifically, we can see average/min/max rejections from proxyd, an...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Save the Random Effects of Mixed/Multilevel Models

Mixed/multilevel models are used to analyze hierarchical data (e.g., repeated-measures data, “nested” data such as when data is collected from individuals working in teams). Mixed models are able to disentangle variance that occurs among the l...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered

bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered

Integrate lsadmin/badmin/bctrld to work with systemd in >= LSF 10.1SP14

Starting in SP14, if we wish to take advantage of individual daemon monitoring for res, sbatchd and lim on server nodes we have to follow the following caveat: Note that once you use systemctl commands to control these daemons, do not use the exis...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Adding effect sizes to all main statisctical procedures

Adding calculation of effect sizes to all main (non) parametric statistical procedures such as T-testing WITH choice of type of effect size such as Cohen's d.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered