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PySpark Kernel unable to read/extract when connected to external database using Kerberos Keytab

IBM JRE supplied as part of Sym 7.3.1 + Conductor 2.5 is incompatible with current use-case Use-case: We have a client that uses Spark/Notebooks (PySpark kernel) to connect an external database via ODBC using kerberos. Whenever they try to connect...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

Virtual IP configuration feature to WEBGUI service

The customer need to use a virtual IP address for the accessing to WEBGUI service through the management nodes IP.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

making the token expiration customizable instead of fixed at 8 hours

Currently spectrum conductor re-authentication happens every 8 hrs. PNC has jobs which runs more than 8 hrs and token gets expired in between running jobs. This problem was not existing in sas lsf and it was auto authenticated. application is regu...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

Run SparkCleanup service per individual Instance group instead of centrally

We would like SparkCleanup service to run as execution user of each individual Instance Group, rather than centrally as cluster admin. This will avoid the need to do preliminary work to make sure execution users of SIG are part of cluster admin un...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Delivered

Integrate Spark 3.1 into Conductor 2.5

Integrate Spark 3.1 into Conductor 2.5 Our current Conductor 2.5 environment uses Spark 3.0 and one of our clients need Spark 3.1 integrated with Conductor 2.5. Please can you provide patch to add Spark 3.1 ?
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 4 Delivered

Windows compute package for Conductor 2.5

Hi, can you provide Windows slave support package for Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0? we have been using 2.4.1 with Linux masters and Windows slaves. Please refer to the support ticket for reference. Thanks,
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Delivered

To display 'WAITING' state in the WMLA hypersearch rest

In the current set-up, we have Notebook users as high priority and HPO jobs have lower priority (Prasad, can you please provide more details here on the priorities set for Notebooks as well as HPO consumers?). If our GPU cluster is fully occupied ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

Data connector for CDH 6.x

A certified data connector to Cloudera CDH 6.x.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

Update the Spark version in a existing SIG.

If I have SIG's which have spark version of 2.3.1 , can I upgrade / change the configurations of existing SIG's spark version to New 2.3.3 without touching other configurations except Spark ? I got update from Anthony Frery . Next version Spectrum...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

MAPR support as datasource in CwS

This is from case #TS001210587. Customer case requires to read/write data from MAPR FS from CwS SIG
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered