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Version 7.3

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add a timeout control for the SOAP receive function stack

Related ticket TS018053983 SD becam unresponsive. Yu Dong Wang (IBM)Mar 03, 2025, 02:49 Hi Jiabin, Checked with development team. There is currently no timer configuration for the function stack. Can you open an RFE so they can add one? The reason...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Remove OpenSSL in Symphony client 7.3

Hi, Yudong, Unfortunately the security team informed us the DLL you provided ( 1.1.1w ) does not pass security scan, the result indicate the same vulnerability as previous version. Looks like we'll have to go for the option we discussed earlier: r...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Submitted

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
21 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

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...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future 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.
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Submitted

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...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

Farm out GPU process with Pythonwrapper

We would like to farm out GPU process with PythonWrapper
over 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 ...
over 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