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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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If 0 is given as first parameter, the bkill command ignores other options and terminates ALL jobs of the user. advise a warning if the command "bkill 0 -q gui" is used instead of the correct command "bkill -q gui 0". If tried to run, bjobs <jobid> -u <user>. The error "-u: Illegal job ID" displays. Something of this stature could be very helpful for users who do not intend to kill all their jobs.

Would it also be possible to provide documentation on what happens if the parameters are used wrong when using using "jobid 0"? Thank you.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 2 Delivered

LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Prevention of Spectrum LSF over-preemption

The current LSF preemption design does not prevent over-preemption (i.e. preempt more jobs than needed). When the preemption of a large low job takes some time like several minutes, the following incoming high priority jobs could preempt other run...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Advanced pending reason.

When I check pending reason, jobs have strange pending reason.I will explain with following example. ------------------------------------------------A user submits some jobs to specified queue and user specifies a server with -m option of bsub com...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Removing resource usage and batch job information from job output

By default, the batch job and resource summary are added to each batch job's output. We would like the ability to either select the information added to the output, or the ability to disable this feature. The following is an example of the informa...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enabling postgres access in Tableau desktop

Hi, With reference to the below attached email conversation, we need to enable postgres access through tableau desktopor platform analytics designer provided with Platform Analytics Package, From: Di VK Wu/China/IBMTo: Madhu-sudan KAPOOR Cc: Gui H...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration