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Spectrum Symphony

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Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 for symphony 6.1.1 and symphony 7.2.0.2

log4j 1.2.14 and log4j 1.2.15 is end of life in CITI support, Need log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 to avoid compliance issue. Required this patch on both Symphony 6.1.1 and 7.2.0.2
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Comment option for soamcontrol app

There are multiple teams manage apps. One team may not know why the app is disabled by another team. Hence, we request comment option for soamcontrol app command. Besides, there are comment options for both "kill session" and "kill task". It does ...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Display child process ID on GUI

In Task Details tab on Symphony console, it displays the process ID for the SI for that task, however, it does not display any children process ids. We need to see the child process IDs that were started by the SI.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Symphony C++ API supports openMP

Based on IBM support team, IBM Spectrum Symphony doesn't currently support openMP used by Service Instance processes.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration