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Spectrum Symphony

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When a session is suspended while tasks are running on reclaimed hosts, the suspendGracePeriod should take precedence over EGO consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

Define a very large reclaimGracePeriod (say 10 hours) for a consumer. If a compute host is reclaimed while the workload is running, then the tasks will remain running until the reclaimGracePeriod expires. However, if the session is then suspended,...
almost 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

We need c++17 and C++20 as well as C++23 support on RedHat Linux 8.9 kernel 4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.x86_64 for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2.

We need c++17 and C++20 as well as C++23 support on RedHat Linux 8.9 kernel 4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.x86_64 for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2. We need to run our compute hosts on Linux and we need support for c++17, c++20, and c++23
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Add filter function into HostFactory view

There is no filter or seach function on HostFactory view. There are more than 1000 instance and 200 requests created every day. It is very inconvenience to find right host or request
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

persist width of Application name column under workload Health on dashboard

There are 30 characters of our application name. The width of applicaiton name under workload health on dashboard is not persist after navigate away and back.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

Improved logging for SD TCP Backlog to aid troubleshooting

Requirements: Dynamic turn on/off with the feature being enabled by default. Log Format: Similar to VEMKD, may include more metrics such as queue size Data to be logged:1. Acceptance rate per channel 2. Performance of the accept (i.e. SSL handshak...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release