Job basics

You can view jobs, job arrays, job flows, and job groups from the Workload page.

How a job runs through IBM Spectrum LSF
When you submit a job with IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center, the job is submitted to IBM Spectrum LSF. IBM Spectrum LSF selects the best hosts where the job can run and dispatches the job to hosts.
Notification settings
The IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center Notification settings allow you to control your default settings for job status notifications, deliverable through the browser, email, desktop client, or mobile application.
The job submission form
You use a job submission form to submit your job to IBM Spectrum LSF. The Generic job submission form is useful when applications are not installed on the system to quickly run an executable binary or script by uploading it to the server and running it.
Job data
In the Workload tab, on the Data page, you can quickly submit a job by selecting input files that you want for your job. You can also manage your data files.
Job output
The output from a job is normally not available until the job is finished but you can look at the output the job has already produced. You can check whether your job is behaving as you expected and kill the job if it is running away or producing unusable results. By default, you can see output from the most recently submitted job.
Job states
Job states are Pending, Running, Done, Suspended, Exited.
Actions you can take on jobs
The possible actions you can take on jobs are: New, Suspend, Resume, Kill, Rerun, Resubmit, View Output, Delete Directories.
Job groups
A collection of jobs can be organized into job groups for easy management. Submit, view, and control jobs according to their groups rather than looking at individual jobs. Job groups are listed in the Workload tab, Workload > By Group.
Job states
Job states are Pending, Running, Done, Suspended, Exited.
Job information and details
You can display information about jobs that are both running and about jobs that recently finished (Pending, Running, Suspended, Exited, Done states). All your jobs that are still in the system and jobs that recently finished are displayed.
Job output
The output from a job is normally not available until the job is finished but you can look at the output the job has already produced. You can check whether your job is behaving as you expected and kill the job if it is running away or producing unusable results. By default, you can see output from the most recently submitted job.
Actions you can take on jobs
The possible actions you can take on jobs are: New, Suspend, Resume, Kill, Rerun, Resubmit, View Output, Delete Directories.
Viewing estimated time remaining to complete a job
Applies only to jobs, job arrays, and job groups. When you submit a job and specify the estimated run time, IBM Spectrum LSF calculates the estimated finish time for running or pending jobs and the estimated remaining time of jobs. You can view this information from the Jobs and Job Details pages.
Job groups
A collection of jobs can be organized into job groups for easy management. Submit, view, and control jobs according to their groups rather than looking at individual jobs. Job groups are listed in the Workload tab, Workload > By Group.
Job alerts for flows
About job status notifications
Job status notifications are enabled by default. The parameter that enables or disables notifications is ENABLE_JOB_NOTIFICATION in the $GUI_CONFDIR/pmc.conf file on the IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center server.

Parent topic: Submit and monitor jobs

Parent topic: Workload