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Spectrum LSF

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command-level job starters should work with bsub

According to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=starters-about-job command-level job starters (using LSF_JOB_STARTER env variable) do not work Are user-defined. They run interactive jobs submitted using lsrun, lsgrun, or ch. Com...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 5 Is a defect

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Add Column PSUSP to Job Group Output and Allow Filtering by Name Similar to Job Name filtering in "bjobs"

For our user community, Jobs that go into PSUSP are important for the flow owners to investigate and our flow owners are using Job Groups. The inability to easily see the number of Jobs that are in PSUSP is limiting the effectiveness in the use of...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration