[DRMAA-WG] other IDL issues

[Peter Tröger]

>>> 
>>> * ReservationTemplate(): maxSlots is only supportable with PEs (parallel environments).
>>> Same for jobs, they need a PE in order to request more than 1 slot. While in the JobTemplate
>>> this is made *very* explicit, that one might need request a job category this is not mentioned
>>> in the ReservationTemplate. Therefore I propose to add
>>> 
>>>     string JobCategory;
>>> 
>>> in the ReservationTemplate in order to be consistent with the multiple slots request
>>> approach. The JobCategory in the spec could be renamed to Category if needed.
>> 
>> this is fine with me, but lets call it ReservationCategory or
>> Category, not JobCategory.
> 
> I also thought on ReservationCategory but this needs to add it as a different 
> new concept in the spec and also requires new functions (for retrieving 
> all ReservationCategories).
> 
> Since both (ReservationCategory and JobCategory) are just strings and in 
> Univa Grid Engine for example both categories maps to the same concept 
> (additional resource requests, which are appended). I would rather change 
> "JobCategory" to "Category" as  a generic category name for job or reservation
> requests. 

Since this one of the rare events were Mariusz, Daniel and me (a group majority) agrees on something, I will just do it like this.

Best regards,
Peter.