[slurm-users] Feature request: create a job id before job submission

[Mark Hahn]

> Some cluster sites need the creation of a workspace for the job in a
>scratch area before the actual job submission, and on the other hand they
>don't accept all characters as name of the workspace. Hence the plain job
>name often can't be used here.

puzzled two ways: why not use the numeric jobid, and why would configuring
the scratch space be too slow to perform in the job prolog?

regards, mark hahn.