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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

Conductor should capture memory details for Jobs finished less than 30 seconds

Currently IBM SC is sending max memory as 0 or no memory for jobs completed less than 30 seconds. PNC application has majority of jobs that runs less than minute in small queues. Memory information is very important for PNC application to queue th...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future 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

user account not synched with groups --PAM

We are provide permission at group level ,when we add new users to group, user level permission it is not synched. bash-4.2$ egosh user roles4user -u u003464 No role for user <u003464>. bash-4.2$ getent group cmrddsairaw cmrddsairaw::3059:a0...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

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Background:The versions of RStudio we have are outdated, and also set up outside Conductor.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

MAPR dataconnector support for spark 3.0

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR dataconnector support for the SPARK 3.x for Conductor 2.5.0.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Dask support on Conductor based on OpenCE conda packages for Power

Conductor 2.5.0 brings Dask to light. In order to use Dask, one needs to create a conda environment for it. Currently release of Conductor builds that conda environment leveraging WML-CE 1.7.0, a project which was sunset in 2020. It should be leve...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

ELK Metrics support for DASK

Requesting support for application level performance metrics for Dask jobs to be loaded into ELK. Currently, we get these metrics for spark jobs and would like to get this type of information for Dask jobs as well in 2.5.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Scale 5.1 and higher support to WML-A 1.2.3 including Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0

Add support for current level of Spectrum Scale 5.1 and higher versions to WML-A 1.2.3 based on Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Planned for future release