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Expand API (or bjobs -o option) to report memory reservation on a per-job basis

Determining per-job memory usage is valuable, but we also need to be able to see, on a per-job basis, how much memory job(s) have reserved at a point in time. Partly we need to be able to compare to the actual memory use to see if they're over-res...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Index query definition does not check if the index attribute has storage enabled leading to query which will never return results

If an index attribute is not stored the index query will never return any data. This can be cause confusion to the user as to why it is not returning data because it is not stored it will never return any result. If a check can be done to exclude ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Possibility to list lsf jobs for multiple users with bjobs -u option

It will be useful for people to check lsf jobs for all their accounts in a single command. bjobs -u "abc xyz" It should list lsf jobs for both abc and xyz.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Adding one more field [JobID] to "badmin diagnose -c query" output

If users execute query commands in LSF batch job, it can overload the LSF master server and degrade its performance. To address this, we need a new field for job IDs to expedite the identification of problematic jobs. And the requirement is to add...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

RTM High Availability deployment

Provide deployable options for RTM components in High Availability configuration including web service, data collection and database.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Better JDBC 4.3 support in the JDBC/JCC driver of Db2 11.5.5

As the knowledgecenter states in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.wn.doc/doc/c_ds_clients_drivers_11-5-5.html "JCC supports new APIs from JDBC 4.3 specification with this release. ... JDBC 4.3 specification...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration