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Request for a plugin to address the lockout issue. To be implemented included in FP3 Patch delivery

This new RFE has been requested by the IBM Dev Team. Reference https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPCS-I-1113__;!!Jkho33Y!jDQwS2syU1P26kiq9Pqd2MGED4qxhSXCiN4gZsyyO2Z-zpfFnTNMScAaj75qeJFe4dspTQVNgkf4mZJ0D2L83g$ "For plugin lock...
2 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Customizable ManagementHosts Resource group

I would like to request that IBM consider adding enhanced flexibility to the Multicluster SMC software by allowing the Management resource group to be customizable. Specifically, to have the ability to add a new resource group in addition to the s...
3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Implement Task Response limit in Spectrum Symphony

I would like to request a feature enhancement for Spectrum Symphony which would allow to implement a Task Response limit. If the Task Response is above the defined limit then either Symphony should fail the task OR not return the Task response rat...
12 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
28 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
18 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enhancement to enable configurable limits on LIM message queue

The IBM Spectrum Symphony product currently sets a default LIM message queue limit of 10,000. Under high workload demands with aggressive scale-in/out requirements, this limit is sometimes exceeded, leading to missed requests and performance degra...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration