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Spectrum Symphony

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Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Package - Run egosh/soamview on non cluster hosts

We would like to run tools such as soamview and egosh on hosts that are not members of the cluster in order to administer them remotely.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

Symphony HostFactory launch instance based on time

We request HF launce instances including spot instance based on time and terminated based on with optional time and workload
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Future consideration

Support Symphony HostFactory CLI

Symphony HostFactory CLI support, like: 1. Get current requestor, provider list, and detail json file for each requestor, provider. 2. symA and all requestors running state 3. Apply new json file to requestor and provider. 4. Change HostFactory de...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

HostFactory GUI improvement

HostFactory/Cloud GUI improvementConfiguration:1. Add configuration change for requestors with application list check button 2. Change provider configuration json file to the form with pull down values and explanation for each parameters3. Add act...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - SMC tasklevel balancing enhancement

Task Level balancing only evaluate the balancing once during the session creation, meaning once the session is created, there is no more dynamic balancing, all tasks will be dispatched to participating cluster according to a static share ratio. Th...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

Support openssl-1.0.2 in Symphony 7.2.0.2

Citi external-hosted AWS Grid is based on Citi RHEL 7.9 + IBM Symphony 7.2.0.2. In Citi RHEL 7.9 2021b image, openssl package is in version 1.0.2k: openssl-libs-1.0.2k-21.el7_9.x86_64openssl-1.0.2k-21.el7_9.x86_64 which is not supported by Symphon...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration