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Expand API (or bjobs -o option) to report memory reservation on a per-job basis

Determining per-job memory usage is valuable, but we also need to be able to see, on a per-job basis, how much memory job(s) have reserved at a point in time. Partly we need to be able to compare to the actual memory use to see if they're over-res...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adding one more field [JobID] to "badmin diagnose -c query" output

If users execute query commands in LSF batch job, it can overload the LSF master server and degrade its performance. To address this, we need a new field for job IDs to expedite the identification of problematic jobs. And the requirement is to add...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to list lsf jobs for multiple users with bjobs -u option

It will be useful for people to check lsf jobs for all their accounts in a single command. bjobs -u "abc xyz" It should list lsf jobs for both abc and xyz.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

RTM High Availability deployment

Provide deployable options for RTM components in High Availability configuration including web service, data collection and database.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration