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Wells Fargo want to have Elastic Filebeat & Logstash applications updated to v8.13 or higher for the embedded products lifecycle management

Reducing risk of vulnerabilities or insure ability to support.
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Certifying Spectrum Conductor Platform for miniforge.

Miniforge is a relatively new conda installer that is managed by conda-forge community (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge). Our organization has decided to move away from Anacodna and Miniconda and use exclusively miniforge to manage our co...
7 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Have a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData

We need a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData since under high loads, race condition will occur causing host to be blocked with exit code 127. This occurs since more than one process accessing /tmp/hsperdata_<user>/&...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 3 Submitted

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review

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

Ability to resize the columns across the job page, as well as any other columns in order to see text that is too long

Column Resizing so that we can see the full line of text and not have it cut off if the text is too long. The ability to resize would help for copying and pasting pieces of the string or the entire string itself.
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Python 3.11.x is not supported in IBMSC 2.5.1 spark 3.3.1

Currently Spark 3.3.1 does not support python 3.11.x, it requires spark 3.4 or greater. Please release IBMSC 2.5.1 support for spark 4.0 or higher at the earliest.
12 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted