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Spectrum Symphony

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RESTful Administrator API

Currently, it only can manage mapReduce jobs. We have to use WSDL to admin SOAM. We request RESTful administrator API
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SSM dump after a crash

When a SSM process crash, have a possibility to automatically have a dump or even more logs details
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Additional Feature in Symphony existing commands

Is it possible to have some enhancement in our existing symphony commands like soamview session or soamview task where we can ask IBM to add more information related to job termination and Pending reasons like below examples . And Job submission t...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - Deploy symphony update

SMC could be able to deploy patch on manager. Manager should be able to deploy patch on SSM and compute
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Planned for future release

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration

Hostfactory Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration while there is service and providers
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[HostFactory] Cloud GUI lack of searching function (PIMCO)

Currently, there is no search or filter feature for cloud host and request. There are more than 300 hosts and hundreds requests every day. Very inconvenience for users.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

non-root user should work with Gridsync (RSA)

RSA service is started as non-root user in our env. This make gridsync does not work as expect when the dataset is not owned by the execution user of RSA
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Not under consideration