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Spectrum LSF

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Is it possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of Azure AD?

Dear experts, We expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center, but LSF PAC does not support of Azure AD. So I would like to ask the experts from IBM if it is possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Graph visibility for shared host groups in different queues

We have sharing of hostgroup resources in our cluster like below : eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /metaroot : bqueues -l bUSERS: all HOSTS: hg_batch_rh7_he6+5 hg_batch_rh7_telia+5 hg_gpu_he6/ hg_gpu_telia/ eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /m...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to dump sequence of jobs ids considered by LSF scheduler for dispatch during a dispatch cycle

An old job which is pending in LSF may continue to remain pending with the reason "Individual host based reasons" while newer jobs continue to get scheduled. This may happen due to queue priority and fairshare settings. When running 'badmin diagno...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support both JSON, YAML payloads in addition to the current XML payload when using the REST API

We currently have a projects where users will be submitting and controlling workload through Application Center. The customer is asking that they be allowed to continue to use JSON payload instead of XML payload for job submission and control.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters. These two clusters are being used by one business division. However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster. They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing fo...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration