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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...
5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

Allow DNS name in IMS notification exit

Right now, as best as I can see, to use the IMS notification exit you must use the IP address in the assembler exit configuration table (CECE1OPT). This requirement to use IP has been frowned upon by our network team, they would prefer a DNS name....

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
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

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 ...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Submitted

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
15 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information

Consider AMD ccd/l3 cache in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Add the Linux PAM support in LSF

Dear all, we have several applications unable to work properly when they are executed by launching Vnc jobs. We receive several dbus and dconf error messages which can be traced back to the fact that the directory /run/user/$uid isn’t found. This ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Not under consideration