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MapReduce - Platform Symphony Admin ID can submit MapReduce jobs with root privileges.

If the user has the Cluster Admin id and Password used for the Platform Symphony Console, that same id can be used as user/password combination to submit a mapreduce job with root access.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

LSF bpeek -f exits cleanly on batch job completion

In LSF, after submitting a batch job, one can use the "bpeek -f" command to follow the log file of the job to track its progress. When the batch job completes or exits, the "bpeek -f" command continues running, and continues to display the last li...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Autorebind and APREUSE Option

We are in DB2 V10.As suggested in previous RFE nr. 72489 my request is: Autorebind supports APREUSE option.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - Task scheduled to service instance under initialization instead of those ready to run tasks

The service has the logic to restart itself once memory utilization hits certain threshold. It returns a control code(1) when finishing a task, and upon this control code, SI is configured to restart itself. However, tasks are found to be dispatch...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

Support for Platform RTM 9.1.3 with PHP 5.5

PHP 5.3 has reached end of life. For security reasons, we are required to either remove it, or upgrade to PHP 5.5. However, it appears that Platform RTM 9.1.3 requires PHP 5.3.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

maintain client GID(Group Identifier) after being dispatched.

As per IBM support team, when the jobs is being executed on the execution host, the gid on the execution host will be used.This is the designed behaviour of LSF. But they want to maintain client GID(Group Identifier) when jobs are being dispatched...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Decreasing cpu near the end of job

Hello, Some jobs are consuming several cpus at the beginning of the jobs.But, near the end, only a gui is displayed which consumes for example only one CPU. It should be nice if we could decrease number of cpus.I know it's possible for memory usin...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Host Advanced Reservations listing

Under Tabs: Grid > Host Info > I would like to see list of host that have Advanced reservations. However I would like to choose or be able to select what data I would like to display. For example, I want to HIDE the Reservation ID which in o...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - 1:N Service-to-Slot ratio should double the memory limit in cgroups. [DUP 33239]

For 1:N Service-to-Slot ratio, the memory limit in cgroups should double up approx. based on the no. of slots provided. So a process memory limit can dynamically expand based on the no. of slots given and the S-to-S ratio.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

Default attribute to be present for GPGPU & Xeon Phi for standardization in ego.shared

Default attribute to be present for GPGPU & Xeon Phi for standardization in ego.shared. This helps to have standard nomenclature in the grid, instead of any random tags picked.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered