Submit interactive jobs

Use the bsub -I option to submit batch interactive jobs, and the bsub -Is and -Ip options to submit batch interactive jobs in pseudo-terminals.

Pseudo-terminals are not supported for Windows.

For more details, see the bsub command.

Find out which queues accept interactive jobs

Before you submit an interactive job, you need to find out which queues accept interactive jobs with the bqueues -l command.

If the output of this command contains the following, this is a batch-only queue. This queue does not accept interactive jobs:

SCHEDULING POLICIES:  NO_INTERACTIVE

If the output contains the following, this is an interactive-only queue:

SCHEDULING POLICIES:  ONLY_INTERACTIVE

If none of the above are defined or if SCHEDULING POLICIES is not in the output of bqueues -l, both interactive and batch jobs are accepted by the queue.

You configure interactive queues in the lsb.queues file.