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Spectrum Symphony

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Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2: Configurable backlog value in communication library
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Struts 2.5.x delivery for symphony 6.1.1

Struts 2.3 is flagged RED by CITI products team and struts 2.3 should not be used any more in CITI. So need higher version struts for Symphony 6.1.1 DE and Symphony 6.1.1 Masters
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the SSM paging logic

currently SSM holds page files once they are created and does not release the file handles or shrink the page files until SSM terminates. we think an enhancement is required so that the page files can be either released or actively cleaned up once...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

[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

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][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