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Spectrum Symphony

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[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...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

[RFE][CommerzBank] - EGO API for User Management - REST API for User Add/Remove/Modify as the solution

Java API from 5.1 (UserAdmin) has been depreciated and there is no replacement EGO API in Symphony 6.1.1 which can manage user add/remove.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under consideration

Execution User Modification After Creation

SocGen wants to be able to modify execution user account name from PMC after it is created.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Request to restart Python Child Process when task done

Currently, with Python drop 2, on the service side, each service wrapper process will spawn a new child process, which is responsible for the actual task function execution, when the wrapper process starts for a new session and will kill the child...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Remove Struts 1 from Platform Symphony

Our team uses Platform Symphony as a work load manager for IBM BigInsights. The product contains both version 1 and 2 of struts. While working to patch a security Vulnerability in the struts 2 jars we were told by our security team that struts 1 i...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

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)
almost 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.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][SocGen] - Cloud - RESTful API for application management, workload monitoring, etc.

Open Restful API for Symphony management. CLI commands aren't efficient when it comes to automatize application creation/delation/modification without having a SSH/PSexec access to the grid which is not safe. More generally, Symphony should be mor...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[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
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration