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Spectrum Symphony

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Symphony 7.2.0.2 webgui is not working on Chrome version - 81.0.4044.113

IN CITI, we use Chrome version 81.0.4044.113 which is not compatible with Symphony 7.2.0.2 webgui . Requesting to provide the fix ASAP as it holds our symphony migration.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Delivered

[EGO][CLI] - Truncated Consumer Name on egosh alloc list "-l"

Current the consumer name is truncated even with "-l" option. It is extremely inconvenience for user. It is great if user can configure statically or dynamically length of consumer. egosh alloc list -lALLOC CONSUMER CLIENT RGROUP RESOURCE ALLOCATE...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Delivered

Timeout in SessionCallback API

Adding timeout in the API call under timeout in sessionCallback, specifically for onResponse and onException. currently if client application hangs on these API calls it would hang indefinitely until app level time out.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 3 Delivered

Balance tasks between Resource Groups

We currently use Balanced Slot Allocation in Resource groups to allow tasks to be balanced evenly between resources. However, if Resource groups are heterogeneous, or if a Consumer can use 2 resource groups, it is not balancing tasks between the r...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] - HostFactory supports AWS reserved instance

Currently HF supports on-demand and spot instance. We request to support reserved instance. There are 2 types reserved instance. We expect IBM symphony can support both however we will use scheduled reserved instance around May, 2020 https://docs....
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 3 Delivered

Certify for Citi - Symphony 7.2.0.2 on RHEL 7.6

Hi, CITI planning to build symphony 7.2.0.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo). Please certify it for CITI.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Delivered

SD crash during port scan

During our vulnerability scan, SD process crash and don't take any more jobs until we restart it. We need to add some protection mechanism to avoid crashing process.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 2 Delivered

Support MDS resource fencing for Windows for Sym7.3

Per the latest 7.3 document, that MDS resource fending is not supported on windows. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZUMP_7.3.0/shared_files/MDS_rusage_limit.html we would like to request the support for windows as well for both CPU a...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Delivered

[RFE][CS] - Recursive workload support for MDS

Currenlty MDS supports recursive workload backfill only if the child task's resource slot definition is the same with the parent. it would be very useful for child tasks backfill to be enabled if parent and child slot definitions are different.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Delivered

Defraging exclusive host

Owned slots are reclaimed even when there is task running on the host. From the support case above, it turned out a designed feature, to defragment a partially host so others can borrow. Some of our apps are critical with relatively long running t...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered