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Allow REST services make use of Kerberos authentication.

Today, any REST API authentication calls (logon) need to be provided with a username and password in order to get a conductor token. We would like to be able to use a kerberos mechanism (for example, keytabs) in order to authenticate with the logo...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Support Password Less connections for Service ID's

with Spectrum Conductor currently Service Id's authenticated as local user one time with password. This expose the security concern as password can be viewed in plain text. SAS LSF Service id needs to be authenticated manually once when IBMSC is d...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Conda Package for Pytorch - ppc64le with Cuda 10.2

We are currently using Spectrum Conductor 2.5 on RHEL 7.6 with Cuda 10.2 on Power 9 servers. The model validators need the latest Pytorch Package to validate models with the latest features. The current IBM repo channels are having packages that a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

R Studio integration with Spectrum Conductor

Background:The versions of RStudio we have are outdated, and also set up outside Conductor. This limits scalability, and also usability as they are not embedded in the Conductor/Spark environment. We would like to integrate RStudio with conductor 2.5
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Multi-head support of LSF with Conductor

Provide a specific LSF on EGO package which can be deployed on Conductor without Symphony.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Enable "Modify" for ASC in shared filesystem deployment

Enable "Modify" for ASC in shared filesystem deployment.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

IBM Conductor support of Julia language

Julia has risen rapidly as a Data Scientist tool to integrate Python, often with R. But performance and scale are close to C programming code. Need to see a plan to integrate the capability (or positioning on why it is now Irrelevant). Since IBM h...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

Notebook Backup via GUI on Spectrum Conductor w Spark

Users invest many hours developing and working on Notebooks within each SIG. It is required to have backup capability especially as re-deploying SIGs overwrite existing notebooks.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Conductor exploiting ActiveDirectory security (SPNEGO)

Improve authentication and authorization, but in one big step. Active Directory enables integrated NTLM , LDAP and Kerberos. SPNEGO will use TGT if present, or request ID/PWD to LDAP. When set up right, the server then uses delegated security, and...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

Integration between Conductor and Apache Ignite

Looking for integration between Spectrum Conductor and Apache Ignite
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration