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Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

MC scheduling enhancement to enable multiple LSF clusters with same clustername

I think there is bug in how LSF implements multi-cluster functionality. It assumes clustername as uniq/primary key in the list of participating clusters and we still have few LSF clusters with same name - cluster1 (site1), cluster1 (site2), cluste...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

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

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Control passphrase case sensitivity

Today passphrase or password input is set to uppercase characters or not dependent on profile option CASE. When this option is set to UPPER, then all lowercase characters are converted to uppercase. This leads to failed logons and in the end to re...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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

Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Map memory reservation to cgroup memory.low

Mapping the memory reservation of a job to the cgroup memory.low could protect jobs from running short on memory, while in parallel allowing more memory to be used if it's available. The soft limit instead of a hard limit should prevent users to b...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Future consideration

Provide Support for INSERT and WITH in QMF for WebSphere

Please evaluate providing support for INSERT with WITH in QMF for WebSphere. This is currently available in QMF for TSO
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration