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Spectrum Symphony

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Calculate deserved slots only based on active i.e. non-idle consumers in e.g. Symphony HostFactory symA requestor

This comes from discussion in TS009907566 "Hostfactory scale up while cluster had free slots". "egosh consumer view" provides, in addition to other outputs, "Planned Quota" and "Share Quota", for a particular resource group (RG): "Planned Quota" i...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Fileshare

Instead of using NFS / SMB fileshare for symphony, could we have S3 storage too
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Planned for future release

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

More functions for REST API to meet citi's business requirement

The idea is that the REST API should have the functions to inquiry Symphony common information but it doesn't have so far. The three commands I listed are just samples. We won't be able to list all of them. Your side should know what inquiry comma...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Foundation][Diagnostic] - start time and end time for each rerun and reclaim

Currently, Symphony only log the last start time and end time. We request to log start/end time for each re-run or reclaim.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[SMC][RFE][MS] - Support controlling physical sessions of a logical session under SMC

This is related to request ID:134371Each Symphony session submitted to SMC should have a global "ID" I like to see a CLI that can control (such as kill) all physical sessions of a logic session under SMC, through the global "ID" of the logical ses...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

EGO command 'egosh' should support both -json and -o "column1 column2 ..." like other commands

The current egosh command output is formatted in a way that does not make for easy parsing by customers. It would be nice if it follows the LSF convention of providing both a -json output format, and an columnar output format using -o "column1:xx ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 0 Planned for future release