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Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Addition to Citi Standard Password length of 12 Characters

As to the previous idea I submitted, please note the following for Citi Password standards that must be implements to Spectrum Symphony user accounts are : Must be a 12 Character password At least 12 characters in length At least 1 uppercase lette...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Future consideration

Citi has a policy of minimum password of 12 Characters

IBM Spectrum Symphony currently accepts a 1-character password, this is not to Citi Standard and does not comply to Citi Security standards. This password length needs to be implemented so the admin user and other users have a minimum password Len...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Fix the Python Extension Input node in 18.5

Modeler 18.5 The new option for writing native Python code (pandas-like) in Extension nodes is incomplete because the Extension Input node does not allow assigning a dataframe for the data; instead, you must use the Extension Input node solely fo...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Extension Output Node for Native Python with Graph Output tab like R and Python for Spark

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Native Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the str...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Manipulating a custom node from a stream script

want to manipulate a custom node from a stream script. Currently, it is possible to create a custom node from a stream script using "createAt", but it is not possible to set the value using "setPropertyValue". Since custom nodes cannot be manipula...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration