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Version 7.3

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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...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the SSM paging logic

currently SSM holds page files once they are created and does not release the file handles or shrink the page files until SSM terminates. we think an enhancement is required so that the page files can be either released or actively cleaned up once...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

Please provide update for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 to update Spring Boot version to 3.3

Our compliance team is requiring all Spring Boot version be updated to 3.3 since all previous versions are already end of life or approaching end of life in next 30-45 days.
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Submitted

Farm out GPU process with Pythonwrapper

We would like to farm out GPU process with PythonWrapper
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Under review

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

egosh service list not get service output

This happened between our egosh "client" on on-prem workstation and the cluster on AWS. On-prem in our workstation we've setup a "egosh client" which basically is a collection of binaries and dependency of egosh.exe for the purpose of administrati...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

support installing primary host in silent mode

When moving Symphony clusters to AWS/Azure, not allowing to install primary host(first one) in a silent mode such as Windows bat script is really unfriendly to us. And brough us lots of inconvenience and extra work. Can you make it happen in 7.3 a...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Change VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration