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Spectrum LSF

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allow timezone in time base configuration

allow time zone specification in time based configuration to synchronize LSF clusters around the world, and also License Scheduler especially when there's Daily Saving Time for some regions (switching at different dates) and none for others. there...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Multi-cluster pre-exec failure should kill job from source cluster

These documents make it look like this issue is addressed, but they are not functioning as they should. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=lsbparams-remote-max-preexec-retry https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Automatic adding OS version as RESOURCE in lsload's output.

In LSF cluster, there are so many kind of OS version.it is depend on EDA design cad tool version, because customer has so many kinds of OS version servers to run their application.OS vendor releases new OS version frequently and sometimes, they bu...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

bwait command logging

bwait logging in querylog or through some other method/file?
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

Could specifiy a functional name when launch a flow

The name of a submitted flow is always the same --> users cannot differentiate between simultaneously running flows.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

A forwarded job can not submit jobs to submission cluster.

When a job is forwarded to a remote cluster and running on a server host, it wants to submit some jobs to the submission cluster by sourcing the submission cluster's LSF environment. However, the job will be submitted to the execution cluster, ins...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF: API call need to show job submit & termination in a custom plugin

A custom LSF scheduler plugin has access to LSF APIs along with registered call back functions to influence & monitor job scheduling.Presently, there is no precise way to determine the job submission & finish of a job. Registered NewJob &a...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Security concerns with ID and secret ID

When setting up resource connector for AWS it requires that we provide aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key in aws_enable.sh script. This is stored in plain text format. If the aws cluster is used by our external customer this will be a sec...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

systemd service unit files for LSF

Currently, LSF provides init.d scripts to start/stop LSF services on the host. This work well for SysV based systems like RHEL6 but not so well with systemd based systems like RHEL7. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more gr...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Allow Dynamic Job Priority column to be displayed

Currently, jobs displayed in application center are displayed in either dispatch order, or based upon the sorted column. The customer would like the ability to add a dynamic priority column to the list of available columns and then display, for pe...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered