Thank you for the response. We’re running LSF 9.1.3 currently (and working on migrating to 10.x).
It looks like the problem is a delay between when bsub returns the jobid for a new job, and when the bjobs command starts returning that jobid’s status. I’d been aware of this gap, though it’s usually less than a second and can run longer, obviously it’s too long, and OnDemand considers the job to have failed since it doesn’t return for that id immediately.
I made a wrapper script for the bjobs command to have it sleep for a few seconds before running the actual ‘bjobs’. Once that was in place in the cluster.yml file, my next attempt brought up the Notebook window as per your example. Thanks very much!
I’ll have to see how best to address this long-term, but at least in the short term I’m able to move forward. Thank you again!