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Spectrum Symphony

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Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 for symphony 6.1.1 and symphony 7.2.0.2

log4j 1.2.14 and log4j 1.2.15 is end of life in CITI support, Need log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 to avoid compliance issue. Required this patch on both Symphony 6.1.1 and 7.2.0.2
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

MultiCluster RestAPI

Could you please provide samples and docs for SMC REST API ? Samples should ideally cover logon, service add, service sync, profile registration, profile fragment update, retrieve profile.As Ajith mentioned, please deliver samples before docs if t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

SMC Changing session priority

Add new functionality in SMC to support changing session priority (RFE).this can be done using the Symphony WSDL API, but you would need to create a WSDL client and connect to each Symphony cluster in turn... but it should be done by SMC who are m...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Update Line Items in Resource Plan via CLI/API

I am requesting the capability to update line items in a traditional resource plan via CLI/API. This would include updating the owned slots, share ratio, slot maximum for a specific consumer path and specific time period in the resource plan. The ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

[RFE][PIMCO] - Certify Generic Python 3.x

Currently, IBM certify version at subscription level. We request to support Python 3.x in generic way so that it can apply on minor version
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Symphony C++ API supports openMP

Based on IBM support team, IBM Spectrum Symphony doesn't currently support openMP used by Service Instance processes.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

Client libraries size

As explained in the case, we consider the size of the libraries that need to be included are big for the client. For us is a concern that we need to distribute an additional 192MB with our executables. It's our impression that symphony c++ client ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

[SDK and API] - ISO compliance for Symphony Client c++ headers

symphony client c++ header files are not ISO compliant
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Not under consideration