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License Management

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Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Reallocate licenses from idle jobs

Customer is facing a problem where a license is checked out by some user for their interactive job (and assigned to high priority license project), but the job session is idle (potentially, user went to lunch or left for the day). As a result, oth...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Functionality already exists

blusers improvement to show both external and hoarding jobs in one listing

Hi, I didn't find an option in "blusers" command that will give me the full list of jobs that use specific license token. There are two options available, each gives partial picture and the output is in different format. So it takes unnecessary e...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

show license conflict for jobs

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage. add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

License Scheduler ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE + FAST_DISPATCH combination

We are troubled by the slow dispatch time of jobs, when the license scheduler is involved. Even after lengthy optimization, the dispatch time remains at 10-25 seconds, which is not good. (note that LMSTAT time and interval is just 3 seconds). If t...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration