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Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past

Possibility for the user to view and export OpenPages data at any given date/hour/minute in the past without the need to have previously saved a reporting period (snapshot). It should ideally roll-up all data changes occurred in the database till ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Standard report to count users by category (as defined in the licenses)

at least Profiles and the objects they use.
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 5 Not under consideration

Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Improve Multicluster overflow capabilities

The main issue with multi-cluster is the inability to set rules for returning tasks to the primary cluster. For example, if the primary site becomes free after tasks have been sent to a secondary site, it would be beneficial to return the load to ...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

provide a standard "ownership" report that can be run by user and/or division/department etc that would provide information on all objects owned by the person/division/department

In order to facilitate simpler Management Information (MI) production, it would be useful to have a report that could be generated and exported that shows all objects owned by a person (and/or by division/department etc) as this will help to show ...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration