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Spectrum LSF

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License Scheduler in Project mode - Increase license utilization

In License Scheduler project mode two projects (Proj1 /Proj2), two tokens (F1 & F2).Job(b) requests two tokens F1 and F2 under Proj1License Scheduler allocates F1 under Proj1 to job(b)The token F2 is currently not available as it already utili...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Change the name of "libevent.so".

We have "libevent.so" for our application. LSF "libevent.so" conflict with it and we have to set library path for ours in job scripts. "libevent.so" is too common name, so please change it in LSF, like "liblsfevent.so".
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

enable LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC in job level

LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC which can be used to not to run "post_exec" for rerun jobs can be set only cluster level in lsf.conf . Require a similar config parameter to enable this in jobs level so that it can be applied to specific jobs .
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

user max priority issue

When user submits with larger user priority than MAX_USER_PRIORITY, the job should be accepted with MAX_USER_PRIORITY instead of being rejected. So if MAX_USER_PRIORITY is 100, and user submits with -sp 101 it should still take job with job priori...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Job Preemption fails for LSF host(group) based slot limit

LSF based job preemption doesn't work when hitting host/host-group based CPU slot limits.The reason cited by IBM is that in LSF, currently, the system counts the no. of CPU slots for preempted/suspended jobs towards respecting the limit. This is n...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM - increase maximum export rows dropdown

please increase the maximum number of export rows available (grid_xport_rows) up to at least 200k
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

add 'from_host' field in 'Batch Job Filters'

add a new 'From Host' field in the 'Batch Job Filters' of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view to select jobs submitted from a specific host
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Cross-Queue Fairshare needs new mode to perform fairshare over multiple prioritized queues

Currently (v9/v10), when crossqueue fairshare (CQFS) w/ DISPATCH_ORDER=queue is enabled, actual job dispatch is based on queue priority which overrides any fairshare calculated priority. In our opinion (and after review with IBM staff), this compl...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Requesting AIX-64 build of LSF 10.1.0.3 FixPack 3

Requesting AIX-64 build of LSF 10.1.0.3 FixPack 3
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Job Pack esub output

Currently LSF Job Pack feature does not output messages from esub. We have certain customized output in our esub which we would like to see output when users are submitting using job pack.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration