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Spectrum Symphony

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Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

improve PMC view of MDS plan

improve the PMC view of MDS plans. The view of SBS plans gives a big picture view, including expandable elements to drill down, as well as showing sharing and ownership and time windows all in the same view. MDS plans should also be viewable in th...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

Ensure "egosh resource open" truly open a host to take new tasks by default

When Symphony opens a host, the common sense understanding of it is "open" means the host is open to "business" i.e. to new workload. However, the current Symphony host open feature is so that, if SOAM_CLOSE_NODE_GRACEFULLY=Y also true, then hosts...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Future consideration

MTS weird behavior after running on 7.2.0-17

Please change the behavior of one task failure causes a restart of the service instance, hence have to restart other running tasks in the same service instance
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Not under consideration

disable RG preference enforce

the free slots in less preferred group will be allocated to the consumer firstly before the consumer reclaims other leaf consumers for the more preferred group to get its share.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

API or CLI for MDS management

Add support in REST API or CLI for configuration of all aspects of MDS Plans. This includes • Get MDPlan.xml• Add, remove plan (distribution tree)• Add, remove consumer• Add, remove resource group• Change resource group preference• Update OverComm...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration

Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

Backport SNMP event for SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENT to Symphony 7.2.0-2

from IBM documentation the integer value for the error message is the following:SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENTComponent name: SYMReturned integer: 75089Error The OS communication system returns an error while attempting to accept a new client's conne...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

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