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GUI: Network tab throws ERROR

On GUI when clicking the Network tab of a server in our cluster it is only possible to see eth* network cards.We would need to make vlan configurations visible there as well. In that way we have more feasibility and better administration possibili...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 0 Delivered

[Support Matrix] - Support Windows Server 2016 for management and compute hosts

Windows Server 2016, as the most current incarnation of Windows Server, should be supported for Symphony. The latest Windows version officially supported by Symphony 7.1.0 is Windows 2012 R2. We were informed by support that we need to log an RFE ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] Add Log4J feature for wsg.log (Webservcie Gateway)

The Webservice Gateway log (wsg.log), does not have time stamp in it, and it cannot be configured. Need add timestamp in the log just like any other services. Product or Service: Platform Symphony Advanced Edition 7.1.0Component ID: 5725G8602 Oper...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Implementation of GLIBC memory allocator malloc_trim functionality to address memory fragmentation of the SSM process

Implement and malloc_trim API call, part of GLIBC memory allocator API, provided by the GLIBC runtime, inside of the SSM. The call invokes the linux kernel syscall sbrk and madvise which shrink the free top of the heap chunk allocated for small al...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

[Foundation][RFE][UC] - Provide systemd scripts for Spectrum Symphony

RHEL 7 and recent Ubuntu version use systemd as their default init system. To be fully supported by Red Hat and in order to get more control on when the service starts (order, timing, dependencies), it's a wise choice to provide a systemd script a...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

[Cluster Management] Allow new servers joining the cluster in "closed" status

We need to have a way to control the status of the servers just joined a cluster. Currently new servers join the cluster in "open" status which can start to run jobs right away. We need an option to allow servers joining the cluster but in "closed...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Feasibility of multihome Management hosts to support different MTU on network.

We would like IBM to certify below solution for supporting differnet MTU with multiple network cards on Management hosts and different sets of compute hosts where one set of comput hosts has 1500MTU setup and another set of compute hosts has 9000M...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

support all characters in taskTag - Wells Fargo

We have integration with Calypso, which set calypso job names in the task tags, some of these names contain characters like "/", "+", and Symphony is rejecting these. There are business logic built upon these taskTags, so we request IBM to support...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

[Security and Access Control] Enable secure SSL communication between Multicluster components

Allow to configure secure SSL communication between all Multicluster components i.e. MC Mangement hosts and MC proxy hosts, client-multicluster.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered