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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

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

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

Enable option for hardcoding GPU memory request like its available for CPU memory request

At this moment IBM offers features of hardcoding CPU memory. We have implemented this feature in our cluster with esub scripting. Similarly we want to have same feature available for GPU memmory (gmem) to be hardcoded. I have raised ticket to our ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Make it possible to synchronize IMS and VSAM data with CP4D on Linux One

At the present time IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not available for Linux One (only x86).
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Select / Deselect All Buttons for Table Selection Pane

When the Data Gate table sync screen is opened and a scheme is selected, all tables are automatically selected. This can be a burden if the user only wants to sync a small subset of the tables and must manually deselect the unnecessary tables, esp...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

truncated hostnames in bjobs output

For a debug where hosts are available but jobs are not landing on them - I need to run bjobs -UF (or -l) -p2 This command generates below like data structure Slots are reserved for guarantees: xxx3-sim-d18-081, xxx-sim-d18-077, xxx- sim-d30-065, x...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Table selecting screen is not user friendly.

While selecting tables under a specific schema, by default, all tables are coming as selected. If we need to select only one table, we need to go over all other tables and unselect them. There must be a button to select/deselect all tables.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

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