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Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

New UI - ability to save Manage Views sort order

There is currently no way to save the sort order in the Manage Views screen. It is very frustrating when working with many views that you have to keep applying the sort order every time you go into Manage Views
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for the publishing Workflow and View

Currently , we might not be able to capture any history of publishing for views or workflows in Audit Trail. I believe we need to track such information. Furthermore, it is more useful if the detailed change history of views and workflows will be ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018324375 has been opened for this as well.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Planned for future release

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Ability to assign default profile for an user based on AD Group

Currently, a default profile is allowed only at platform level which forces users to manually switch to their assigned profile based on AD group the very first time they log into the system. Instead, if there is an option to assign default profile...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review