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blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
17 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Under review

Add to the elastic index lsf_job_acct a field that will save memory limit set to a job

Adding this data to elastic will enable us in a simple way to find jobs with memory limit higher than memory requested and to check actual usage of memory
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Under review

LSF installer binary hung during SILENT_INSTALL

when SILENT_INSTALL="Y", is set the installer gets hung on this step. we dont have any option to overwrite by default as a install.config parameter. Logs: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSF ...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Under review

improve bconf .

we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
26 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Enhancement request to lsfproxyd

We have workfloads from dozen of users which continously generating very high and sustained job submission requests. Whenever they are starting their work, the grid may grind down to a halt or very slow to process any other request. We want a tier...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Future consideration

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Planned for future release

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information