We've noticed when trying to use the 2017 job manager a couple of issues with getting results (in addition to previously mentioned general issues with the job manager):
-Results occasionally disappear completely after the analysis is 'complete'. Sometimes the log file is populated with all of the information and has completion times, but there are no results to match.
-Temporary files don't exist after analysis completion. When a complete set of results don't copy over correctly in 2016 and prior releases we would go to the solver and copy the files from the temporary directory to the network manually, delete the rfn files, then reopen the mpi file. Most of the time this would make the result files show up complete as long as the analysis completed without issues.
We've found out that the temporary files are deleted immediately after the job is copied over to the network. If for some reason there was an issue with the transfer of files then it deletes the files anyways and they are gone for good. This is a MAJOR issue. We can't even have a slight chance that results will be gone for good after running the analysis especially when a study takes 2+ hours to run. We need to be able to go back to the temporary files and copy them to the server as a fail-safe otherwise running analysis in 2017 is too risky.
I understand if this is a necessary step with the cloud, but when we are running things on a local network we don't have to worry about the same security threats such as temporary files being stored.
My request is that there be an option to turn off the deletion of the temporary files. Or even better, just make it so that the temp files are only deleted when the analysis was run on the cloud. Because right now in our opinion it is not usable.
