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bwait command logging

bwait logging in querylog or through some other method/file?
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

QMF should provide enhanced error messages in case of Proc failure

This is required for debugging the procs for any failures. QMF object causing the failure along with line number should be included in the error message .
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Maintain original File within WDS

I have been working on few projects where the client has PDF documents. This happens to be the case with my current client. I have to ingest those PDF documents to WDS and keep the original in some file store for displaying it when the document i...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

LSF API should offer asynchronous event handler for job status notifications

It would be nice if LSF had functionality for job event notification similar to LDAP's LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID control (and Microsoft's Active Directory has this, as an LDAP implementation), where you can use an extended LDAP asynchronous sea...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add latest version of the log4j API to the DVM distribution

The log4j that ships with DVM is not the latest version available online (at https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html). We need the flexibility of using any log4j jar.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF SE needs a way to set waiting time before forwarding jobs to remote cluster in Multi-Cluster environment

LSF AE + XL mode provides MAX_RSCHED_TIME=penditng_time_to_be_recalled wait_time_to_reschedule, but LSF SE supports only pending_time_to_be_recalled. As LSF SE has no control for the wait_time_to_reschedule, job could be unnecessarily pended for a...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Have LSF Handle ZOMBI job searching using either BTREE or HASH ALGO's

Large number of ZOMBI jobs can impact very large clusters operations resulting in high backlogs and additional lost job status. Improving the ZOMBI search algorithm from Linear Search to BTREE or HASH would reduce this impact.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Make the TCP Backlog for the MBATCH and MBATCHD Query Port Configurable for Large Clusters

We have been monitoring the TCP backlogs for LIM, MBD, and the Query port for some time, and there are periods where the MBD query port becomes overloaded resulting in a higher than expected count of UNKNOWN and sometimes eventually ZOMBI jobs, an...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Mail function of CP4D Platform enhancement

Currently, I understand that CP4D's mail sending function is as follows. The platform can send emails to users only when Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog are installed. If neither service is installed, the SMTP configuration is not used. ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Delivered