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Spectrum Conductor

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API For Explorer Reports

Currently there is no REST API for Explorer reports. We would like to have an API so we can monitor the performance using Telemetry.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.0 1 Functionality already exists

Spark UI ports blocked by firewall due to randomized ports in IBM Spectrum Conductor2.5.0

SPARK UI ports are being blocks by firewall since ports are assigned randomly starting from 18480 instead of 18080 as specified by documentation. Also, In IBMSC Jupyter notebook, SPARK UI port in sparkcontext is assigned randomly and is blocked by...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Functionality already exists

Java 11 support

Java 8 will be absolute in near future. our team is planning to replace Java 8 with Java 11 Java 11 support is required for future.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Functionality already exists

Upgrade needed for scala 2.12 in Spark 2.4.7 / Spectrum 2.5.0

Requirement for users to use scala 2.12 compatible feature in spark 2.4.7.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Not under consideration

Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor

We are planning to upgrade the OS to RHEL 8 on the servers hosting Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0. With this there is also a requirement to have automation in place. We would like to get an Ansible Playbook to Deploy Spectrum Conductor.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Not under consideration

Implementation of MFA-Ping to access WMLA

Currently, WMLA doesn't have implementation of MFA where ping can be used to have multiple factor authentication. UI page of spectrum conductor expects the username and pwd to be entered.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 2 Functionality already exists

Allow REST services make use of Kerberos authentication.

Today, any REST API authentication calls (logon) need to be provided with a username and password in order to get a conductor token. We would like to be able to use a kerberos mechanism (for example, keytabs) in order to authenticate with the logo...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Conductor should capture memory details for Jobs finished less than 30 seconds

Currently IBM SC is sending max memory as 0 or no memory for jobs completed less than 30 seconds. PNC application has majority of jobs that runs less than minute in small queues. Memory information is very important for PNC application to queue th...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Support Password Less connections for Service ID's

with Spectrum Conductor currently Service Id's authenticated as local user one time with password. This expose the security concern as password can be viewed in plain text. SAS LSF Service id needs to be authenticated manually once when IBMSC is d...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Support GCP for cloud bursting

Currently IBM spectrum conductor has a support cloud bursting for both AWS and Azuer . But not for GCP. In wellsfargo we have need to support GCP . As all our computation goes into GCP. Can we have this integration available with GCP also.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration