2019.01 Update 7 Release Notes

Product(s)	Internal Issue	Case Number	Description
All	VOV-12584		Session and process group IDs 0 and 1 will not cause cause all process with those ids to be included in the process graph used for job statistics.
All	VOV-13023		Prevent vovslave from growing beyond the configured maximum capacity whenthe job in the last slot becomes suspended. Allow for maximum capacity to be configured on a running slave even when thecapacity value is not changing. Support the full capacity specification format in wxagent via the CONFIG(slave,slots) parameter. Do not automatically mark a wxagent job as suspended if one of its child processes become suspended.
Accelerator	VOV-12707	CS0131356	Curly braces can now be used in environment specifications as a means of supporting characters that would normally be sensitive to the processing of the specification. For example, to pass a comma into an environment variable value using the D environment, use D(FOO={bar,baz}), or via the alternative syntax of D,FOO={bar,baz}.
Accelerator	VOV-12628	CS0127402	Fixed a bug where License: was prepended the resource name if the resource parameter was specified in vtk_flexlm_monitor, even if the resource name already started with License:.
Accelerator	VOV-12726	CS0133891	The vovcleanup utility has been updated to work with resource data files using the .res suffix.
Accelerator	VOV-12489		Fix for cleaning up the files created today when vovcleanup is run before noon and cleantime is < 24h. Previously, these files were not being removed by vovcleanup.
Accelerator	VOV-12977	CS0143428	Fixed an issue with interactive jobs (nc run -I) failing with the error message "Job has problems with PTY. Bad pipes".
Accelerator	VOV-12030	CS0120906,CS0121020	Fixed issue that caused slaves to be killed with the message "Slave instructed to exit brutally". This also fixes server messages like "Cannot find slave rdc-cad-svr12 (illegal id 365667285) pid=32830"
Accelerator	VOV-12396	CS0121165	Multiple CORES, RAM, and TMP resources requested for NC job are properly combinednow when passed to container. For example "nc run -r+ RAM/100 -r+ RAM/200 ..." will result in setting "VOV_CONTAINER_RAM=300" available from Container Hook scripts.
Accelerator	VOV-9776	24061	The form for submitting a slave reservation now checks that the data is valid before actually submitting the reservation.
Accelerator	VOV-8012	21662, CS0121063	VOV_LM_VARNAMES functionality will now be available for interactive jobs and will support multiple license servers in colon or semicolon (windows) separated list instead of space separated list.
Accelerator,Accelerator Plus	VOV-13051	CS0121039	Fixed an issue with interactive jobs (nc run -I) failing with error messages similar to"Error=98: Address already in use [vovttyserver2:244]" and "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open PTY port (with remote signal handling): Cannot open pty server sockets [vncrun.tcl:2257]". This is accompanied by job errors similar to "Cannot connect to PTY server on submission host lava1 13316 Z@:x=XGa56cT_Hd6 from lava5".
Accelerator,Accelerator Plus	VOV-13038	CS0145428	Fixed issue that prevented shared memory lookup from being disabled if the VOV_SHARED_MEMORY_LOOKUP_DISABLED environment variable was set. Support configurability of job statistics calculation interval via the pre-existingcomposite-value -U option to vovslave, as well as the vtk_slave_* calls. The composite value format is a CSV list of timespecs, in order of resource updates (slave heartbeat), slave statistics, and job statistics. Support the composite-value for the -U option in the vovwxd configuration via the CONFIG(slave,update) parameter.
Accelerator,Accelerator Plus	VOV-13030	CS0149277	Fixed an issue with Ctrl-C not working as expected with interactive jobs (nc run -I/-Il/-Ir).
Accelerator	VOV-11226	24205, CS0128626	Fixed issue that prevented pre and post commands from running as the job user in containerized jobs that make use of container hooks that run as root.
Accelerator, Accelerator Plus	VOV-12629	CS0127516	Removed duplicate detection logic from -r+ and -dpres+ submission options. As a result, the -r+ option now properly handles more complex resource specifications.
Accelerator	VOV-11000	24853	This change allows DP jobs to assign a separate jobclass to the master and component jobs. It works by setting VOV_JOB_DESC(dp,jobclasses) to a comma separated list of jobclass names the same way that VOV_JOB_DESC(dp,resources) can be set to specify resources. The jobclasses are treated as strings. They are not evaluated as you are already setting these from within a jobclass definition. See the updated Accelerator documentation for further explanation and examples.
Accelerator Plus	VOV-12635	CS0128164	Fixed a bug causing a memory access violation in vovserver when multiple slaves are being stopped with running jobs.
Accelerator Plus	VOV-12658	CS0124441	vovwxd will no longer print warnings about slaves being in "state 1" (pending).
Accelerator Plus	VOV-11836	CS0120725	nc forget using the options -mine, -dir, or -subdir, will no longer forget system jobs bydefault. A new option, -system, will include system jobs to match old behavior. In general, the option -system should not be used when forgetting user jobs in a WX setting because forgetting launcher jobs for slave agents that are not runnable in the batch system before they are processed by vovwxd couild result in lingering queued agent jobs. Using nc forget -minewithout the -system flag will forget the user submitted jobs and allow vovwxd to more efficientlyclean up slave agents.
Accelerator Plus	VOV-12316	AAP25172	Fixed an issue that caused vovserver memory to grow over time as "nc wait" and "nc run -w"commands were issued.
Accelerator Plus	VOV-13037	CS0147601	Prevent vovslave from growing beyond the configured maximum capacity whenthe job in the last slot becomes suspended. Allow for maximum capacity to be configured on a running slave even when thecapacity value is not changing. Support the full capacity specification format in wxagent via the CONFIG(slave,slots) parameter. Do not automatically mark a wxagent job as suspended if one of its child
FlowTracer	VOV-12571		vovwxd configuration parameters CONFIG(launchers,autoForgetSuccessful) and CONFIG(aunchers,autoForgetFailed) will now work regardless of the CONFIG(log,level) setting. The defaults for these settings has been changed to "0s". Either of these values should only be set to non-zero when debugging slave launch issues to avoid additional server overhead.
FlowTracer	VOV-12570		Using local resources in FlowTracer with an LSF Base queue will now correctly account for local resources when using array launcher submission.
FlowTracer	VOV-12569		FlowTracer Local resources will now be properly released in the case of an LSF launch failure.
FlowTracer	VOV-12455	CS0121195	This fix addresses issues handling files larger than 2G in size in the flow.
FlowTracer	VOV-12620		vovwxd now supports LSF array jobs when getting the status of launcher jobs submitted to the queue.
FlowTracer	VOV-12261		License:*resources will now be properly passed to the base queue when using FlowTracer with vovwxd.
FlowTracer	VOV-12203	CS0120999	Re-evaluation of a job class to compute the union of resources when used with an indirect slave (slaveVNC) is no longer done. This is typically relevant for FlowTracer integration with either Accelerator (NC) or AcceleratorPlus (WX). To restore the old behavior, please contact Altair support.
FlowTracer	VOV-11873		To enable resources to be managed locally by FlowTracer when using an LSF backend via vovwxd enable the vovwxd.localresources parameter in the policy file and create the resources in FlowTracer using the vtk_resourcemap_set -local parameter.
Monitor	VOV-12575		Fixed handling of mixed-case user names on Windows to always honor the case reportedby the OS. On Windows, the case used at login time will be the case used when obtaining the active user from the OS and when applying security. It is therefore recommended for users to always use the same case when logging into Windows. Otherwise, a separate vtk_security entry will be required for each case used (such as for joe, Joe, and JOE), and those user names will be considered as different users. Prior to this change, for a mixed-case username, the default security entry was for the user name in lower-case only, resulting in a security mismatch if the user logged into the web UI with the same case used to login to Windows itself.
Monitor	VOV-12294	CS0121092	Suppressed below server log for loopback IP addresses. vovserver(3956) ERROR Jun 1200:04:28 Found host with different ip: 127.0.0.1 instead of 10.10.1.34 [host:903]