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    command-level job starters should work with bsub

    According to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=starters-about-job command-level job starters (using LSF_JOB_STARTER env variable) do not work Are user-defined. They run interactive jobs submitted using lsrun, lsgrun, or ch. Com...
    about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 5 Is a defect

    Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

    The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

    Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

    The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
    over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

    bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

    Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
    over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

    LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

    For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0

    In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

    When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

    Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

    The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Optim audit tables retaining too much data

    In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
    over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

    Set a limit for service class

    It would be useful to set a limit in lsb.resources for Serive Class "SLA" in order give some minimum guarantee with SLA and set a maximium number of resorucese usable in this SLA.It would be excellent to indicate the limit with the number of nodes...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under 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...
    about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

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