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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

IDAA LOADER - Terminate a...

Today, when we have a problem with a Load execution, we can use the BMC ISPF application to terminate the utility or use the DB2 TERM UTILITY command.When using Loader, there is no way to terminate a utility unless using the HLOMAINT Job .So, we n...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 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

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

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under 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

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration