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New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Ability to reserve GPUs in LSF advanced reservations

It's currently not possible to reserve GPUs in an advanced reservation with LSF, unlike CPUs (slots) and memory. For example, we have some hosts with 120 CPU slots and 8 GPUs. I want to create a reservation that reserves half of a node. I can do t...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

#cpfield Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited.

Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited. We would like to fix this Problem.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

Correct on Design Flaw in Session Scheduler

Currently the Session Manager and Service Director operate in the same CGROUP on the first execution host which causes a race condition that if a task on the first execution host pushes the memory use above the memory limit (aka mem-eater process)...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Using EGO Audit Logs To Monitor Log On And Log Off Events At Web GUI and All REST APIs

The EGO Event Audits summarized in Table 1. EGO Event Logging Details of this URL https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-conductor/2.4.1?topic=auditing-ego-event-audits define the EGO events that must be audited. The same URL defines the expected au...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

Add support to Kerberos ticket with new "renew-until" date for already submitted jobs

While using Kerberos ticket forwarding on a LSF cluster: Currently TGT found on the submission host is copied to LSF cache and forwarded to the execution host at job submission; These tickets can be renewed automatically by LSF until the TGT "rene...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

Block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration

Conductor failing to start notebooks remain in tentative as it is unable to detect the host mem/cpu usage. Need the feature in Notebook configuration to block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 4 Future consideration