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Spectrum Symphony

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Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
2 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
14 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

security fix request for CVE-2025-36000, CVE-2025-36124 and CVE-2025-36047

Logging RFE on behalf of Citi engineering team. Citi security requires to fix 3 CVEs, CVE-2025-36000, CVE-2025-36124 and CVE-2025-36047. They require WebSphere Liberty Profile 25.0.0.9 or higher. IBM Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack3 incorporated 2...
16 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to enable configurable limits on LIM message queue

The IBM Spectrum Symphony product currently sets a default LIM message queue limit of 10,000. Under high workload demands with aggressive scale-in/out requirements, this limit is sometimes exceeded, leading to missed requests and performance degra...
22 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Enable Global Capacity Limits in HostFactory with Configurable Requestor-Level Control

Background: The CVA environment comprises of two application types: Under /cva parent Consumer – must run exclusively on on-demand instances. Under /cvaSpot parent Consumer – can run workload on both on-demand and spot instances. To support this a...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

GRID GUI to display the package information that are currently installed

There's a visibility gap in GUI when it comes to showing package-level details for installed applications, which is causing friction for both our team and the application teams who rely on that data. Current Workflow Summary Issue: GUI does not ...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5

Support SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION for Kerberos Enabled Cluster

I just realized that per documentation here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=rw-directly-connecting-recursive-session-spectrum-symphony-session-manager-ssm , SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION is not supported when we...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration