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Spectrum LSF

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When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. T

When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. The behavior is not reasonable because it causes the computing resources are wasted. We request the slots of the suspended ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RC_Account visibility in RTM Job Info fields

IBM LSF Resource Connector has gone through many enhancements, like job level RC_Account. However, this field is not visible in RTM. This new filed should be added in RTM job information.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting / Operations/RTM 5 Not under consideration

Add support to Kerberos ticket with new "renew-until" date for already submitted jobs

While using Kerberos ticket forwarding on a LSF cluster: Currently TGT found on the submission host is copied to LSF cache and forwarded to the execution host at job submission; These tickets can be renewed automatically by LSF until the TGT "rene...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

blaunch to handle resized jobs

In a dynamic cluster cloud environment, blaunch cannot handle resizing of the jobs. We are requesting for the addition and deletion of hosts from an LSF cluster with blaunch able to handle the network IO and exit with the return code from the job'...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Make Queue Open/Close/Act/Inact 'all' Requests a single event

We recently had a serious issue that required us to close/inact all of our queues, and then perform a database repair using the IBM support tool. However, when we started LSF, all but one of the queues was Open/Act again. This was due to the suppo...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration