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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

[Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data (large project)

Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data between log filesa. ssm to simb. vemkd to pemc. master lim to slave limsd. ego services to vemkd and egosce. sessionid to taskid and the execution hosts of the tasks
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Audit - Log OS User name in EGO Service Controller audit log

EGO Service Controller Audit logs the EGO user and not the OS account issuing egosh command. Additionally, the EGO user is incorrectly logged when the same OS user logs in on different terminals.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Matrix - Cloudera lastest version integration (CDH5.0)

SDMCC has ordered 70 PowerLinux box plus Symphony, GPFS to run big data analytics application, the application was developped at CDH5.0 (MRv2). Symphony MR to integrate with CDH can bring better performance, reliablity to SDMCC.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration