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Spectrum LSF

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Add field SLA to job_status2 event in stream file.

Our business processes are based on SLA of the job and we want to do reporting of this job SLA. For job_finish2 event, SLA field is already present but in job_Status2 event in stream files, the SLA field is not present. We are blocked due to this ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation for LSF

currently LSF uses kerberos API "krb5_cc_retrieve_cred" to retrieve user TGT, details can be found:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_cc_retrieve_cred.html this API doesn't work for TGT created by constrained delegati...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

possibility to distribute event files over many directories or subdirectories

If there are thousands of event files under 1 directory the speed to access the files will be slow and much faster if distributed over many directories
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration