Command Reference Guide

Platform LSF Command Reference 203
In dependency conditions, job names specify only your own jobs, unless you are the
LSF administrator. By default, if you use the job name to specify a dependency
condition, and more than one of your jobs has the same name, all of your jobs that
have that name must satisfy the test. If JOB_DEP_LAST_SUB in
lsb.params is set
to 1, the test is done on the job submitted most recently.
Use double quotes (
") around job names that begin with a number. In the job name,
specify the wildcard character asterisk (
*) at the end of a string, to indicate all jobs
whose name begins with the string. For example, if you use
jobA* as the job name,
it specifies jobs named
jobA, jobA1, jobA_test, jobA.log, etc.
Use the * with dependency conditions to define one-to-one dependency among job
array elements such that each element of one array depends on the corresponding
element of another array. The job array size must be identical.
For example:
bsub -w "done(myarrayA[*])" -J "myArrayB[1-10]" myJob2
indicates that before element 1 of myArrayB can start, element 1 of myArrayA must
be completed, and so on.
You can also use the * to establish one-to-one array element dependencies with
bmod after an array has been submitted.
If you want to specify array dependency by array name, set JOB_DEP_LAST_SUB
in
lsb.params. If you do not have this parameter set, the job is rejected if one of
your previous arrays has the same name but a different index.
In dependency conditions, the variable op represents one of the following relational
operators:
>
>=
<
<=
==
!=
Use the following conditions to form the dependency expression.
done(job_ID |"job_name" ...)
The job state is DONE.
LSF refers to the oldest job of job_name in memory.
ended(job_ID | "job_name")
The job state is EXIT or DONE.
exit(job_ID | "job_name" [,[operator] exit_code])
The job state is EXIT, and the job’s exit code satisfies the comparison test.
If you specify an exit code with no operator, the test is for equality (== is assumed).
If you specify only the job, any exit code satisfies the test.
external(job_ID | "job_name", "status_text")
The job has the specified job status.