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Validate client on containers

As discused on case TS018079953, the clients are not validated to run in containers, which is a functionality we are aldready using in our clusters. It will be needed to support this functionality in order to have support for the problems we are f...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Needs more information

Improvement in the check for high serial values

I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

IMAM XSD Import from Engine Tier

InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) allows you to import .xsd files to get metadata about respective .xml data files. However the way IMAM currently works is that the .xsd file you want to import can only be on the client from which the IMAM ...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Auto-update "Contained Relationships" of Physical Data model / Schema Relationships

In Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM), relationships can be defined between Physical Data Models (PDMs) and Implemented Data Resource (IDR) schemas. These relationships can have "Contained Relationships" which associate design tables with IDR tables wi...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018324375 has been opened for this as well.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Planned for future release

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

IBM DataStage support PostgreSQL

The "official document or information for IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL 13.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x" could not get now. Same situaation as PostgreSQL 14.x.
over 3 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration