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Spectrum LSF

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RTM - increase maximum export rows dropdown

please increase the maximum number of export rows available (grid_xport_rows) up to at least 200k
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

add 'from_host' field in 'Batch Job Filters'

add a new 'From Host' field in the 'Batch Job Filters' of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view to select jobs submitted from a specific host
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Cross-Queue Fairshare needs new mode to perform fairshare over multiple prioritized queues

Currently (v9/v10), when crossqueue fairshare (CQFS) w/ DISPATCH_ORDER=queue is enabled, actual job dispatch is based on queue priority which overrides any fairshare calculated priority. In our opinion (and after review with IBM staff), this compl...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Requesting AIX-64 build of LSF 10.1.0.3 FixPack 3

Requesting AIX-64 build of LSF 10.1.0.3 FixPack 3
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Job Pack esub output

Currently LSF Job Pack feature does not output messages from esub. We have certain customized output in our esub which we would like to see output when users are submitting using job pack.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Session scheduler support on linux-aarch64

We are using LSF 10.1 session scheduler on our linux-x86_64 compute nodes, and wish to also use the session scheduler on our linux-aarch64 nodes, but it seems to not be available yet ? Can we please request the session scheduler is ported to the l...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job

In IBM's PMR#32285,999,760, we reported LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job.After IBM LSF support's investigation, it turns out in Redhar7.2, multiple gnome-terminal jobs share one gnome-terminal-server. To cope with this situation, a ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

job dependency on requeable job.

Hi, We are working on a workflow enhancement but are facing a potential issue with how LSF handles job dependencies of requeable jobs. Here is the scenario: - there is JOBARRAY[1-10] - there is "sync" job (single) which is dependent on ended(JOBAR...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount. In our case, we have a LSF installed in a NFS location which is statically mounted to /r. In order to have lsfd.service start on systemd based operating systems, we need to modify the service to ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration