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Spectrum LSF

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$TMPDIR not retained in post_exec

$TMPDIR not reatained in post_exec of jobs when LSB_SET_TMPDIR is set to TMPDIR in lsf.conf.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Improve Job REST API PAC for DataManager information

Improve Job REST API PAC for DataManager information Could ask by WebService the global status of Data transfert OUTPUT from a job ID link to the RFE 122352, but could ask also by webservice
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY needs to handle the case where license resource (by License Scheduler) request is not satisfied.

As LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY does not handle the case where license token request is not satisfied, job is repeatedly forwarded and recalled while license is not available.As we use WAN licenses shared by multiple clusters, when the license is not ava...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express.

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express. For example, bsub -R "select[ostype='RHEL*']" -Is csh
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration