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Version 7.2.1

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Symphony cross language support with Python 3.6 and 3.9 as Client

We would like use Python 3.6 and 3.9 as client to call C++ service. Currently, we have the code for Python Windows does not work on Linux
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

HostFactory to include the task slot ratio when calculating the number of slots required for an application

This issue is currently blocking proper compute capacity scaling in Azure CSP.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Support gcc C++11 ABI

When we compile Symphony client on gcc 7.2, we got below error /appl/passdata_beta/lixu/RH7-BOOST-1.78/workspace/pacomm_shared/dev/cpp/build/Linux/dbg/lib/libpacomm_shared_grid.so: undefined reference to `soam::SessionCreationAttributes::setSessio...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

HostFactory: ncores of slot_mapping supports fraction

Currently HF only support integer slot to ncores mapping We would like to have 1 slot to 0.5 ncores to fully utilize the resource of AWS instance
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Slowness in Hostfactory return of large number of hosts

Hostfactory is currently stopping hosts one by one due to the egosh logic. This in return slows down the return of the hosts. We need to have a batch close/reclaim egosh command.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

WSG Service needs to support external SSL certs

Unfortunately, current Symphony (including upto 7.2.1) doesn't support importing an external certificate for WSG service. We encourage to raise an RFE as soon as possible so that IBM dev will start implement accordingly. https://www.ibm.com/develo...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Purger takes 7 hours to clean task_attributes table

It takes as long as 8 hours to clean task_attributes table with 14 days data, around 22M records. Please either add primary key or drop/truncate partition instead of deleting rows which is an expensive operation.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

HostFactory supports multiple zones

We request HostFactory only supports multiple zone
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[Security][RFE][PIMCO] - INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works PAM

INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works as designed for AD security use case.There is no such functions designed in PAM. We request to add this function for PAM as well.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

service package is limited to 2G in 7.2.1

one of our applications has issue to deploy the package due to over 2G large size. We can deploy on symphony 6.1.1 without any issue
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered