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Spectrum LSF

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Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 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.
about 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...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

preemption

We're going to use the preemption through the following settings. Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test99PRIORITY = 99HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE[test1]End Queue Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test1PRIORITY = 1HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTABLE[test99]TER...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add a JobID's column to the table grid_hosts_gpu and show in Job Details page

It would be very beneficial to reporting to see which jobid's are allocated to which jobs when it comes to the GPU assigned. This way, the user can look at the ELIM graphs and know that their job is actually using the GPU in question. Right now, y...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

bkill instrumentation/logging to find source

Currently the bkill command only tracks (lsb.events) who ran it, and what signal was sent. If we have a heavily active user with a broken script, it is very challenging to find the source of the bkill command. It would be valuable to log the sourc...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Need lsmake which is supprts Gmake v4.2.1 or later

Current lsmake4 version supports GNU Make 4.0Customer environment uses Gmake v4.2.1 . We need lsmake4 to support Gmake v4.2.1 to enable make through LSF.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF doesn't allow multiple LOAN policies on the same hosts

LSF has limitation in SLA LOAN_POLICIES configuration by having only one loan duration time available. It would be great, if SLA LOAN_POLICIES can support option to LOAN for different time to different queues. For example:LOAN_POLICIES = QUEUES[ge...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

RTM License monitor

Case TS001211168 - Created - RTM License Dashboard We have been bring up license monitoring on RTM and ts working great. We would like to get more of a readers digest view for the users that list how many licenses we have and how many are checked ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration