IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center Version 10.2 Fix Pack 15
The following topics summarize the new and changed behavior in IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center (LSF Application Center) 10.2 Fix Pack 15.
Download location
Download this Fix Pack from IBM Fix Central. For more information, see Getting fixes from IBM Fix Central.
LSF root privileges
To enable root privileges on hosts for LSF Application Center, you must specify a space-separated list of hosts for the LSF_ADDON_HOSTS parameter in the lsf.conf file. The root users on these specified hosts can then execute commands remotely.
For more information, see LSF_ADDON_HOSTS and Security.
Support for previous IBM Spectrum LSF versions
LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N
LSF_AUTH_QUERY_COMMANDS=NOperating system and client browser support
Before applying Fix Pack 15, ensure that you use one of the supported operating systems. Note that Fix Pack 15 does not support RHEL 7.x, SLES 12, and Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04. It adds support for RHEL 8.9 and 8.10, RHEL 9.5, SLES 15.6, and Ubuntu 24.04.
As of Fix Pack 15, you can use LSF Application Center on upgraded browsers. For details, see the supported browsers.
Upgraded software included with LSF Application Center
| Software | Version |
|---|---|
| IBM J9 JRE | 8.0-8.30 |
| IBM WebSphere Liberty | 24.0.0.12 |
| Commons-io | 2.18.0 |
| Cxf | 3.5.10 |
| Crypto-js | 4.2.0 |
| hibernate-core | 5.3.36.Final |
| Jackson Databind | 2.15.2 |
| Node.js | 18.19.1 |
| Spring Framework | 5.3.39 |
| Spring Security | 5.7.14 |
List of fixes
| Fix ID | Description |
|---|---|
| P105206 | A user can see other user’s VNC console. |
| P105131 | Missing project name for array jobs. |
| P105131 | Application description does not display in the application list column. |
| Hot fix | VNC console freezes when copying large amount of text to the clipboard. |
| P105274 | Missing scroll bar on page. |
| P105274 | The filter in the workload page does not work for child job groups. |
| P105176 | Jobaction.xml always passes 0 as the job array index. |
| P105206 | LSF Application Center Kerberos SSO does not automatically log on a user if the user does not have a ticket-granting-ticket (TGT) on the LSF Application Center server. |
| Hot Fix | LSF Application Center server on Ubuntu crashes when user logs on. |
| Hot Fix | VNC Console jobs fail. |
| Hot Fix | IBM HTTP Server (IHS) does not support customized installation paths. |
| P105032 | User Roles & Permissions page crashes. |
| P105032 | The Usergroup role does not work as expected. |
| P105032 | Users can inject commands to start the VNC URL. |
| P105032 | A third party can inject CLI to the checkWritePermission/pa RESTful API. |
| Hot Fix | IBM HTTP Server security vulnerabilities. |
| Hot Fix | pacclient does not honor the JSESSIONID setting in a high availability environment, causing subsequent calls to pacclient to go to different LSF Application Center backend servers. |
| Hot Fix | Unable to install multiple LSF Application Center instances to the same location. |
| P104783 | Missing the Created By icon on all templates. |
| P105025 | Upgrade Struts version to address PSIRT CVE-2023-50164. |
| Hot Fix | When high availability is enabled with IBM HTTP Server (IHS), multiple PAC instances are started up |
| Hot Fix | High priority vulnerability CVS-2022-40609 |
| P104932 | Incorrect display of workload icons. |
| P104949 | VNC does not work on RHEL 8.6. |
| P105239 | The dbconfig.sh command does not work. |
| P105259 | When navigating to from , the hostname is incorrect. |
Upgraded OpenSSL
Fix Pack 15 supports OpenSSL 3.
Support for Apache HTTP Server high availability
Starting in LSF Application Center 10.2 Fix Pack 15, you can use Apache HTTP Server (instead of IBM HTTP Server) as your HTTP server and gateway to IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center and balance the load among servers.
If you use Apache HTTP Server, install it on a standalone host. Learn more at High availability architecture in IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center.
Remote visualization
For enhanced remote visualization, IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center leverages noVNC's support for more user-friendly enhancements such as copy and pasting. Fix Pack 15 also supports the TigerVNC 1.14 for RHEL 9.5.
Enhanced job notification for supporting high availability in IBM Cloud
Fix Pack 15 enhances job notification for a high availability environment in IBM Cloud.