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Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Planned for future release

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Expanding the host list for bjobs-m

If we puts a list variable containing about 1300 equipment into the bjobs(bjobs -u all -m "$list"), a segmentation fault (core dump) occurs. Dev checked code. The host list in bjobs -m supports 512 hostnames at most. The host to put in bjobs ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

reject multiple bmod/bkill's on same array within a time frame

In reference to PMR 59023,019,866 , our LSF cluster has frequently halted and the scheduler spirals down due to a user running too many bmod/bkill on large job arrays. Despite internal training sessions and company wide communications, this issue ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

RTM to/from LSF communication of Psusp-requeue job notifcation

We have reproduced the issue and it's a timing issue with RTM because LSF does not provide exitinfo when job's pre-exec fails and requeued. Since RTM relies on exitinfo to put it in the correct table, the changes will have to come from LSF. This w...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support btop with a job name.

We need a feature to btop a job name to put all the jobs with the specified job name to the top of the queue.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration