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    Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

    Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
    11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

    Feasibility to kill the jobs if they are submitted directly in the remote cluster for multi cluster scenario

    We can see remote cluster jobs with "bjobs -m <clustername> ..." from another cluster that is a member of MC, no matter the jobs are forwarded to remote cluster or submitted directly in the remote cluster, but we cannot kill the jobs if they...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

    LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

    When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

    Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

    We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
    7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

    GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

    When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
    8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

    Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

    We found that E-Private SP230 Key0 storage growth was occurred in IIDR Classc Capture service. It was due to SMF type 30 EXCP information at DD name dynamic allocation. Our case was 100 thousand DD Dynamic allocation for IMS OLDS open. . Then, I'...
    about 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

    vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

    Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

    When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

    "lim -t" phrases for aarch

    Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
    9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Limit Priority Over Time and Max User Priority by Queue

    There are user workflows that require using priority to order flows and their execution. However, when priority over time is enabled, those methods break down. Using Priority Over Time to APS and Priority Queues is essential, but causes issues in ...
    5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

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