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SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - SMC tasklevel balancing enhancement

Task Level balancing only evaluate the balancing once during the session creation, meaning once the session is created, there is no more dynamic balancing, all tasks will be dispatched to participating cluster according to a static share ratio. Th...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 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 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Client libraries size

As explained in the case, we consider the size of the libraries that need to be included are big for the client. For us is a concern that we need to distribute an additional 192MB with our executables. It's our impression that symphony c++ client ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

SSM dump after a crash

When a SSM process crash, have a possibility to automatically have a dump or even more logs details
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - Deploy symphony update

SMC could be able to deploy patch on manager. Manager should be able to deploy patch on SSM and compute
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Planned for future release

Flops unit on compute

Add Flops unit of compute on Symphony and Multi-Cluster in addition of CPU unit. Add this metric capacity on host information and on the resource plan.More over it'll be very interesting for Cloud computing.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - SMC - On GUI add role assignment for users

instead of using egosh role command, we would like to manage easily our user on SMC cluster PMR ID : TS000975161
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration