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[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Display child process ID on GUI

In Task Details tab on Symphony console, it displays the process ID for the SI for that task, however, it does not display any children process ids. We need to see the child process IDs that were started by the SI.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

How to deal host admin inactivity

The container SSH access to be LOCKED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 30 days The container SSH access to be REMOVED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 90 days The control plane SSH access to be LOCKED fo...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Future consideration

retain /etc/sudoers after upgrade

We are doing authorization through /etc/sudoers for admins to be able to login to the nz user or root. For example like below. ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/su - nz, /bin/su - root...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

backup resolv.conf prior to upgrade

We have a search path listed in the resolv.conf file. It is helpful to locate any server without using fully qualified domain name. The current upgrade is rewriting the /etc/resolv.conf file and user's home directories every time. Due to which all...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Not under consideration

IPS Status report from Console to send to Client

IPS sends status report to IBM as per schedule. If it can also send it to Client, that would benefit client from running status report again.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Functionality already exists

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration