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Version 7.3.2

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Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Support different applications recursive direct connect to SSM

We have currently configured our recursive application to use two different applications (parent and child), in order to accommodate the hostfactory restriction of using ondemand for parent application and spot fleet for child application. In doin...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Podman container for windows service instances on Linux

We are looking for a solution to run Windows applications podman containers on Linux compute hosts
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Add filter function into HostFactory view

There is no filter or seach function on HostFactory view. There are more than 1000 instance and 200 requests created every day. It is very inconvenience to find right host or request
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release