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Spectrum Symphony

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Hostfactory optimization for long running jobs without history

when client submits long-run tasks, HF should consider all common cases within a boundary of 'history_expiry_time' so that HF accounts all metrics (# of running task, # of pending tasks and etc..) in order to provision/release cloud hosts precisel...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

[RFE][PIMCO] - ReclaimGracePeriod and Priority for Yield parent jobs should not be ignored for recursive jobs

Current case, for recursive application, say parent job with reclaimGraceperiod 1500 with priority 1000, child job with 100second with priority 1, however The slot that is yielded by parent and running child task got reclaimed in 100 seconds by SS...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Symphony(7.2.0.2) Testing on RHEL 7.5 OS.

We are planning to upgrade the Linux OS on our Mgmt and COmpute servers, so we need your help to confirm whether IBM Spectrum Symphony (7.2.0.2) can be installed on latest RedHat version - RHEL7.5. It has been confirmed by the IBM Support ( Case r...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Delivered

Support for Spectrum Symphony client 7.1.2/7.2.0.2 on Solaris v11.4 SRU9

We are requesting to provide fix/support for Spectrum Symphony client 7.1.2/7.2.0.2 on Solaris v11.4 SRU9 Spectrum Symphony client 7.1.2/7.2.0.2 is working on Solaris 10 and v11.3 but it is not working with Solaris v11.4 (SRU9).
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 0 Delivered

SOAM history file access

As discuss on ticket TS002007592, we would like to have file synchronization (fsync) feature on Symphony 7.2.0.0 like it is available on symphony 7.2.0.2
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 0 Delivered

AWS instance termination is too slow

Currently it takes 11 minute to terminate 280 hosts with "Lazy" mode and 21 minutes for 246 with "immediate" mode
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Spectrum Symphony v7.2.1.1. Host Factory support for tagging EC2 Instances with User Specified tags

We need Host Factory in Symphony v7.2.1.1 be able to support for AWS spot Instance, Instance Profiles and Tagging of User Data.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Windows API support .Net 3.5 SP1

Some of our Symphony application was compiled .Net 3.5, but application development is not active and decided to terminate in near future.now considering to upgrade Symphony to version 7.2.1. More over Microsoft supports .Net framework 3.5 SP1 unt...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Tags for SpotInstance and OnDemand instance

With RFE125908 ( spot instance plugin), "tags" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html is not supported for either spot instance on on demand. We use it to clarify the hosts are for Symphony so that cloudwatch can pull ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Requesting for Symphony Advance Edition 7.2.1.1+ to be able to support AWS EC2 spot instances Freddie Mac

I have been requested by Symphony Solution Architect, Anthony Frery , to open this request as mentioned in his statement, "Can you or Jim also open a RFE for AWS Spot Instance support? The Dev team is planning to release it on March 15th, as a pat...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered