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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

improvement on guaranteed pool type for GPU resources

In our CMCC HPC data center using LSF scheduler as the batch queueing system, we configured different guaranteed pools in order to handle different needs of the users using the Service Class system.The guaranteed pools implemented use both hosts a...
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform

LSF support for Job isolation using Containers(Docker) for Windows Platform would be beneficial for teams that use Windows along with Linux for their development. Today such support exists for x86_64 but not for Windows.
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Needs more information

LSF and GitHub Actions Integration

Native support in LSF for GitHub Actions is useful for teams working on implementing CI/CD.
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Needs more information

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

UMS UI to support creating an Application that contains Global Variable

It is not currently possible to create an application using the UI that imports Global Variables. Support for Global Variables needs to be provided.
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Provisioning an instance to a Schema where objects already exist

We need the ability to deploy a DOE instance into a Db2 where objects with the target schema name already exist. This is required, for example, if we have PLAN_TABLEs pre-provisioned for a given schema, or if we later determine that we need additi...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide an API that enables you to identify the Application an object is defined in

We have hundreds of UMS applications and it is not easy to determine in what application and object is defined - or whether it is already defined in an application. This request is to provide an API that will enable us to supply an object name, an...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review