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Spectrum LSF

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Set different requeue exit values for different hosts or hostgroups

Sometimes it would be helpful to set different requeue exit values for different hostgroups, something like (i.e. in lsb.applications):REQUEUE_EXIT_VALUES 138 linux_hosts 210 windows_hosts 127 which would trigger a requeue for jobs exiting with va...
about 4 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Increase amount of characters in job description

This enhancement would enable us to store additional job attributes within each job record, such as specific flow information. By enriching the job metadata, machine learning algorithms can leverage this information to make more informed predictio...
about 19 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector. Currently, it only supports managed images, which is an outdated method. Microsoft doesn't recommend this, and most current technologies don't support it. All new features, such as Arm6...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Add the Linux PAM support in LSF

Dear all, we have several applications unable to work properly when they are executed by launching Vnc jobs. We receive several dbus and dconf error messages which can be traced back to the fact that the directory /run/user/$uid isn’t found. This ...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Not under consideration

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Planned for future release

add 'default account name' field for a user to store account used for LSF jobs submission & Licenses.

Hello, in current RTM version (v10.2.0.14), it's not possible to define a default account name (used to submit LSF jobs) per RTM user. Is it possible to add such field in the user record to ease the end-user usage. is it also possible, like for em...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
29 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

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