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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...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Enable Rule-Based Suppression of Measurement Drilldowns for Small Groups

We need the ability to define conditional rules that restrict the reporting of specific measurements when drilldowns result in small group sizes, so that compliance with privacy and ethical standards can be ensured and unintended efficiency analys...
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Configurable separation of data pools

Configuration option to allow / prohibit certain data pools to be joined. E.g. the total data Watsonx.BI has access to consist of multiple pools of data: DataPool A, B and C. Prohibit: Join of data pool A with data pool B Prohibit: Join of data po...
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Consider AMD ccd in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Merge RES_REQ also when alternative RES_REQs are used

Currently settings from the app-profile are not merges with the job/queue settings when a alternative RES_REQ is provided in the submission command (bsub). We require this because we have a need to specify alternative RES_REQs in the submission an...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 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...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

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...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release