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Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Enable Multifactor Authenticated user ids to use SQL data insight

Currently SQL Data Insight UI site does not recognize the MFA enabled User ids. We get RACF authorization error in the back end. MFA Enable user ids(Super privileged user ids in our organization) are used to satisfy the compliance requirements for...
about 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Db2Z INSERT with VALUES should allow multiple rows

Db2 LUW and many other RDMS allow one INSERT with VALUES to insert multiple rows at once. Db2 Z does not allow that syntax. Db2 Z INSERT with VALUES only allows one row at a time So if you have multiple rows you want to insert with the INSERT usin...
over 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

*** RFE #6 PROACTIVE SMART ADJUSTMENT OF DDF PARAMETERS (such as MAXDBAT, CONDBAT etc )WITH THE HELP OF DB2AI DCC MODULE TRAINING DATA.

Important to control dynamic distributed application. A way to integrate DCC alerts and data with other tools (such as OBM). Generate profile based on different DDF clients. Smart adjustment of MAXDBAT, CONDBAT etc.
about 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RFE #5 API SUPPORT

API SUPPORT (REST_API ) FOR DB2AI INCLUDING SYSTEM ASSESSMENT,SQL OPTIMIZATION,DCC TO BE ABLE TO CONSUME THIS DATA FROM INHOUSE TOOLS AND ALSO ALTERT API SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR INTEGRATION TO OTHER TOOLS (such as OBM) THAT CAN CAPTURE ALTERS GROUPE...
about 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration