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Spectrum Symphony

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Partition tasks for resource sharing

Group the task for resource sharing. The scope can be for PythonWrapper only
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Dynamic setting max limit at client site for PythonWrapper

Dynamic setting max slot at client level for PythonWrapper. Curently, can only set with profile
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
24 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Hostfactory config file audit

Like SD, RS, we need to audit HostFactory config files including requestors and providers. The information we need is user name, host info, parameter changed, file name.
22 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Provide a 0penTelemetry instrumented Symphony library

Request to support OpenTelemetry and provide the instrumented Symphony C++ library
22 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Adding version control mechanism for Symphony config files

Adding version control mechanism to Symphony config files for easy tracking and rolling back. The files should at least include: grid config files: ego.conf, ego.shared, ego.cluster, ConsumerTree.xml, ResourceGroups.xml. users,xml. etc application...
28 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Rest API support for allocation stats

we realized that allocation info is not exposed by Rest API, currently we need to do a lot of parsing for egosh alloc command output for that. Can we add an alloc feature for ego rest api so modern systems can directly retrieve such info. ideally ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted