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Spectrum LSF

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When an RTM Admin Takes Action on a Job Provide Email Notification to Users

Currently, in LSF and in RTM there is no way for an administrator to add notification as to why a job was killed. This RFE will add that functionality to RTM. The intent would be to log into the Cacti Log the kill message with the reason, adding t...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Make hostgroups a valid parameter for all commands which also accept hostnames as parameter

Many LSF commands accept a hostname as parameter (bhosts, lshosts, lsload ecc.) to show the results only for the named hosts. Not all of them also accept a hostgroup as parameter (bhosts does, lshosts and lsload don't). To show the results for hos...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Make the `badmin` comments visible in tabular outputs

Several `badmin` subcommands allow to specify a comment using the -C option. However this comment cannot be printed in any of the `bhosts`, `bqueues` etc. tabular outputs (-w, -o, ...). The comment is only shown with the -l option, which generates...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add/modify GPU affinity options for LSF

The objective is to add to and modify the GPU affinity options that LSF makes available via bsub -gpu, as follows. 1. When a user requests NVIDIA MPS via a LSF bsub -gpu option, the default GPU affinity should be "off", meaning that LSF should set...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Treat PAC desktop client as a job submission host

The PAC desktop client does not capture the submission host env. None of the client environment variables and CWD are passed to the execution host. We cannot use it to submit jobs.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Allow LSF to accept MAX_JOB_PREEMPT value of 0

"Currently, LSF License Scheduler will suspend LSF jobs only if they have been suspended less that MAX_JOB_PREEMPT setting at the system, queue, or application profile level. However, customers have cases, for instance interactive jobs, where they...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

chunking: runtime limit (-W bsub option) & estimated runtime (-We) conflict

when a runtime limit and an estimated runtime are set for a job, only the highest value is considered for chunking. if you want to submit short jobs in chunk and you want to set a runtime limit to kill these jobs when they don't end and this runti...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

If you open/tail one file, you cannot interact with the webpage until you close the file.

With version 10.xx.xx Spectrum LSF Application Center, if you open/tail one file (in the job details, you cannot interact with the webpage until you close the file and therefore cannot open more than 1 file; while with PAC 9.1.5, users were able t...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Improve the robustness of ClearCase/LSF Wrapper

The current implementation of the ClearCase/LSF wrapper is not robust. It does not check for instance if a ClearCase setview passes or fails. At times when a ClearCase view server process is rather busy yhe setview operation might fail and since w...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Cross-site Scripting for RTM

RTM Console has been identified with the "Cross-site Scripting " issue. It was identified for RTM version 10.2. Please refer the IBM case TS002914383 for complete details on this.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered