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Spectrum LSF

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IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.2.0 | Enable single sign-on with SAML in Azure

Hi team, We are currently have LSF PAC on cloud environment and expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center. As far as I know once submitted IBM ticket, they inform us that PAC is not verified with Azure AD, that may cause by signature (c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis, currently it only has daily alert notice in RTM pop-up column.

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. The features enhancement came from needs of...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support Host Based ELIM Total/Available and Reservation information in JSON output

In Fix Pack 14, the bhosts command has been enhanced to support the "-o all -json" option, and thank you. However, what is missing are the host level ELIM Total/Available and Reserved values that you can currently only obtain through the "bhosts -...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Provide a method to allow LSF simulations to be captured by a customers RTM

Provided a customer set's up a RTM hostname, and credentials, when a simulation is started, register the simulation clusters data collector and the cluster itself with that RTM and then enable collection for the duration of the simulation. Name th...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase MAX_JOBID in PE environment - 4194303 too low

When using PE in LSF the maximum job ID is 4194303.We have already cycled through the range in 12 months and we'll likely do it twice this year.Having jobs with duplicate IDs causes a lot of problems with things like job accounting.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration