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Version 7.1

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Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

TS000930539:

"Consumer1 executing on a host(with special resource attribute) is not reclaimed and rescheduled on another host when Consumer2, requiring that resource, request allocation. Consumer 1 doesn't have any resource preference, so the expectation was t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Symphony Client install on Windows Machine

Client Don't want to install symphony client msi package install on multiple windows hosts separately and it needs lot of effort to install on each machine and they have to engage Windows OSE's all the time. Is there a way to install package on wi...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Resolve callback thread handing issue on Symphony client 7.1.2

1. Our application MC farms occasionally experience hanging while the farm waits for task responses. 2. The Symphony stats shows all tasks are done, however, the Symphony client API doesn't callback our application. It is likely the Symphony call...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][CreditSuisse] - Add alternative way of configuring ego.conf parameters in SOAM API (C#, C++, other)

Make it possible to pass ego.conf settings as parameters in SoamFactory.Connect() method. Here is pseudo code demonstrating idea: class ConnectionDetails{ List EgoMasterList; UInt LimPort; UInt KdPort; string EgoClientTsParams; … …} SoamFactory.Co...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration