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The Cluster Dashboard "Cluster Status" Should Show Active Users and not Configured Users

Change the Cluster Status panel to show "Active Users" instead of "Configured Users" which has not relevance for operation. "Active Users" is more usable for operations and planning.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

allow REPLACE function to accept empty string

The "source-string" for the REPLACE function currently cannot be an empty string, it throws an error. But I can't see any logical or functional difficulty in just applying the replace logic: the "search-string" is not found, therefore the source-s...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

make OSREQ (=OAM) calls work in Db2 STORED PROCEDURES which have a PACKAGE PATH

OSREQ=OAM calls are officially supported to be done in Db2 Stored Procedures. But this does not work, if the Db2 Stored Procedure is defined with a "PACKAGE PATH". I think this is, because OAM functions operate with and set different COLLECTIONS (...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Correct Heuristics Design Bug

The Heuristics plugin trim's Project Names on panels inconsistently: 1) Trims, but does not properly roll-up statistics 2) Does not trim consistently between panels 3) Projects no way to provide Project trimming level (1, 2, 3, x, All) Basically...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Add a LIM Showstatus 'lsadmin' Option

Today, in LSF, there is a "badmin showstatus" that gives us information such as reconfig time, restart times, host counts, user counts, etc. It would be nice to have an 'lsadmin showstatus' option as well. I would think the following would be good...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS search results secured based on user security

When users use COGNOS search functions they are able to see folders/reports they do not have access to. They then click and get access errors and contact support because they want access or are confused why they cannot access things available in s...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the gridalarms plugin respect Maintenance Schedules like it parent plugin thold does

The gridalarms Cacti plugin was initially a fork of the thold plugin which supports the concept of a Maintenance Schedules, but this functionality was never implemented in gridalarms. We would like to see if that functionality can be added to grid...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Enhance database_purge_cluster.php to have an 'all' option

This --clusterid=all would remove any clusters not currently found in the grid_clusters table. So, the deletes would look something like: DELETE FROM some_table WHERE clusterid NOT IN (SELECT clusterid FROM grid_clusters) Also, the help on this ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Deprecate License Scheduler DYNAMIC setting and support RUSAGE DURATION natively

Currently License Scheduler does not support jobs that use a DURATION on a license reservation in either Fast Dispatch or Cluster Mode. We would prefer that License Scheduler follow LSF properly in all three modes, and deprecate/remove the DYNAMIC...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve Host Automation in RTM to Move a Host that is Moved from Cluster to Cluster

Today, in our operations, we will move a host from cluster to cluster and in RTM that means that there will now be multiple hosts with the same hostname associated with multiple clusters. What we would prefer is that instead of creating a new host...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration