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Spectrum Symphony

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Handle intermediate CA expiration issue

If we add CAFILE parameter in security setting in the cluster, the client can connect to vemkd with only ROOT CA. But it still cannot connect to SD EGO_DEFAULT_TS_PARAMS="SSL[ CAFILE=/opt/middleware/certs/truststore.pem ,CERTIFICATE=/opt/middlewar...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 3 Delivered

HostFactory should release all EC2 instances when all workloads are completed

Currently HF will not release the EC2 instances when prestarted instances are running even without workloads pending/running. In our case, we are using Terraform to provision the cluster, we need HF to release all the EC2 instances before tearing ...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 3 Delivered

HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Allow to disable plugin related requests through HostFactory Rest Api and Symphony GUI

JPMC currently uses Symphony 7.3.1. We intend to allow user to use HostFactory Rest API, from e.g. on-prem to Symphony cluster on AWS. We happen to see Symphony 7.3.2, which we intend to upgrade to later, supports HostFactory plugin related reques...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Delivered

This idea is to request 32-bit sec_ego_sspikrb.dll in order to test Kerberos 32-bit Windows client. The current Symphony version only supports 64-bit Kerberos Windows client

This idea is to request 32-bit sec_ego_sspikrb.dll in order to test Kerberos 32-bit Windows client. The current Symphony version only supports 64-bit Kerberos Windows client
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Enable Podman support for Symphony 7.3.1

We are running Sym 7.3.1 with couple of patches from IBM and now we are looking for running container workload in RHEL8 Podman. We will need Podman support for Sym 7.3.1 on RHEL8.
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

Please certify Java 17 for Symphony 7.3.1

We have a business need to start using Java 17. Please certify it for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 6 Delivered

Support EGO service using EGO_SERVICE_CREDENTIAL to log on to HostFactory Rest Server as it is supported to log on to other Symphony components

Spectrum Symphony has the general feature for EGO service, where credential is passed to the service through EGO_SERVICE_CREDENTIAL so the service can log on to various components of Symphony, like egosh user logon/soamlogon, EGO general rest api....
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 3 Delivered

Please certify Python 3.10 and 3.9 in Windows Platform for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1. We are currently not in position to upgrade to 7.3.2

Our business team needs to run Python 3.9 and 3.10 programs on Spectrum Symphony Platform. We need Pythin 3.9 and 3.10 supported on Current Specturm Symphony 7.3.1 version in our env.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Delivered

RHEL 8.7 or 8.8 certification in Symphony 7.3.2 fix pack 1

We need to build clusters on RHEL 8.7 and 8.8 with symphony 7.3.2 . Requesting to certify symphony 7.3.2 on RHEL 8.7 or 8.8
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered