I think the job template information are easy to add, and make app
writing easier (I don't need to keep the old submitted job template
around...).  Only drawback I see is increase in memory footprint when
used to report on many jobs -- but when used as a filtering
instruction, this should not matter.


My $0,02, Andre.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Peter Tröger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> at OGF-42, we stumbled over the issue that „JobInfo“ does not contain the 
> original job name being used in the template:
>
> http://redmine.ogf.org/issues/102
>
> This leads to the situation that you cannot filter for it when doing 
> monitoring.
>
> Although we quickly decided to add it, I meanwhile figured out that this is a 
> deeper problem. JobInfo intentionally contains nothing from the job template 
> at the moment, which makes perfectly sense if you see it as a pure reporting 
> data structure. You don’t need to fetch information that you handed in by 
> yourself as the calling application.
>
> For filtering, however, you obviously want to have all of the template 
> attributes being usable. This is not possible at the moment.
>
> Another case is the „change job template after submission“ magic in Grid 
> Engine, which could lead to the fact that your job has different attributes 
> from what you originally specified. You may also want to see that in the 
> JobInfo structure.
>
> All in all, it seems like that „JobInfo“ needs all of attributes from 
> „JobTemplate“ too, not only the job name.
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Best regards,
> Peter.
>
>
>
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