Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Controlling Job Arrays
Administering Platform LSF
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Controlling Job Arrays
You can control the whole array, all the jobs submitted from the job array, with a single
command. LSF also provides the ability to control individual jobs and groups of jobs
submitted from a job array. When issuing commands against a job array, use the job array
job ID instead of the job array name. Job names are not unique in LSF, and issuing a
command using a job array name may result in unpredictable behavior.
Most LSF commands allow operation on both the whole job array, individual jobs, and
groups of jobs. These commands include
bkill, bstop, bresume, and bmod.
Some commands only allow operation on individual jobs submitted from a job array.
These commands include
btop, bbot, and bswitch.
Whole array
To control the whole job array, specify the command as you would for a single job using
only the job ID. For example, to kill a job array with job ID 123:
% bkill 123
Individual jobs
To control an individual job submitted from a job array, specify the command using the
job ID of the job array and the index value of the corresponding job. The job ID and
index value must be enclosed in quotes. For example, to kill the 5th job in a job array
with job ID 123:
% bkill "123[5]"
Groups of jobs
To control a group of jobs submitted from a job array, specify the command as you
would for an individual job and use
indexList syntax to indicate the jobs. For
example, to kill jobs 1-5, 239, and 487 in a job array with job ID 123:
% bkill "123[1-5, 239, 487]"