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Version 7.3.2

FP3 supported version of EC2 fleet provider

Hi Team, As discussed on ticket TS023098391, I am raising the RFE to request the FP3 supported version of the EC2 fleet provider which was delivered for FP2 as an RFE SPCS-I-919 (sym-7.3.2-build601917-ms). Thanks, Shruti
10 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

timeout on SdAdminCommand::authenticate()

SD's SdAdminCommand::authenticate() performs a GSSAPI (Kerberos) authenticationcall with no application-level timeout. The GSSAPI call is an in-process libraryinvocation — not a raw TCP socket — so OS-level TCP timeouts do not apply. Whenthe KDC i...
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

SOAM_DIRECT_DATA_PORT to support multiple port range

internal firewall policy has limitation on continuous port range. any chance we can support multiple port continuous port range for SOAM_DIRECT_DATA_PORT. say to allow us to configure something like "20010-20060;30010-30060". hope this RFE is stra...
14 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

Enable SD Auth by pass for Users in an SSO/Kerberos enabled environment

we would like to check if possible that under workload SSO enabled cluster, if we can support AD authentication bypass if user specifying empty string as the user name. 
30 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

Expose a documented, supported and deterministic release mechanism for TaskOutputHandle in the Symphony .NET SDK.

Following up on our discussion under support case TS022160603, we are experiencing high memory usage in our Symphony .NET client. Our testing indicates that the native memory associated with TaskOutputHandle is not released promptly/properly after...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

SYMREST add disable/enable Symphony application feature

Users want to manage Symphony applications and workload via SYMREST service which cannot bounce an application per ticket TS022907381 . Bounce (disable/enable) application is a very basic operation in application management.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Under review

eliminate windows Visual C++ 12 (VS 2013) dependencies for soam

soam component is still built on top VC run time 120 even in the latest version. this is now being flagged as tech debit and vulnerability from our internal scanning and we need to figure out a way to resolve it.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

Support Adding additional network-only credential into SI running on Windows

Enhance IBM Symphony/EGO Service Instance (SI) execution on Windows to support a secondary network-only credential in addition to the existing Run As account. This would allow an SI to continue running locally under its configured Windows account ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

Supporting clang++ 16.0.6 & up in spectrum symphony 7.3.2

A lot of applications are using clang++ at Morgan Stanley, we'd like to have spectrum symphony officially supporting clang++ 16.0.6 & up. clang++-16.0.6 clang++-18.1.3 clang++-20.1.5
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration

We would like to have global variable to specify work directory in shared location separate from Config directory

Shared directory for high availability in spectrum symphony cluster usually reside on NAS shares. Since work dir is part of shared directory folders, when NAS shares are backed up using snapshot, work folder with history/paging creates large size ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Future consideration