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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector. Currently, it only supports managed images, which is an outdated method. Microsoft doesn't recommend this, and most current technologies don't support it. All new features, such as Arm6...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Delivered

In the 'License Scheduler' product, monitor only necessary features instead of all

Hello, sometimes, we encounter slowness (freezes) on LSF jobs scheduling due to big slowness in licenses monitoring (lmstat) from License Scheduler because license features used for some resources under LS management are part of license services m...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 6 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

RTM License Scheduler Users dashboard to include demand rusage value

RTM License Scheduler Users dashboard currently has the demand rusage value set to 1 and does not reflect the actual demand from the job. It is not clear if the feature/resource demand would come from the job or an LS query, but currently the valu...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 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

The number of TCP exceeds the max number 2*200 defined in LSF source code

We're getting the following message from master lim.log.doAcceptConn: Can't maintain this big clientMap[400], Connection from 10.230.236.102:36587 dropped And I received the following explanation and advice through case number TS003933691. It look...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered