diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
index 5f0eaad193..197b0ceb17 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-compute/src/utils/specs.py
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ def detect_arch(_rocminfo):
     else:
         return (gpu_arch, idx1)
 
+# Custom decorator to mimic the behavior of kw_only found in Python 3.10  
+def kw_only(cls):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        for name, value in kwargs.items():
+            setattr(self, name, value)
+    cls.__init__ = __init__
+    return cls
+
 
 def generate_machine_specs(args, sysinfo: dict = None):
     if not sysinfo is None:
@@ -172,7 +180,8 @@ def generate_machine_specs(args, sysinfo: dict = None):
     return specs
 
 
-@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+@kw_only
+@dataclass
 class MachineSpecs:
     ##########################################
     ## A. Workload / Spec info