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Spectrum Symphony

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tasks pending or low number of running task with idle free slots wasted when using dynamic service

when using dynamic service feature, if one SI triggered block host action, all the slots on the same host will be in releasing state, and ssm can not get slot replacement promptly.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

To reuse the original started SI if it's serving for the next task from other session, using the same servic type

When using proportional scheduling policy, we are seeing frequent resuffuling of slots amont sessions with the same service type, and SIs are being restarted frequently.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

MapReduce - Platform Symphony M/R to support Object Store (QA Project)

Many customers are looking for an lower cost storage options(similar to Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift) on Amazon cloud or Softlayer cloud and able to run analytic on it. Current option for storage that are available to IBM Platform Symphony Cloud s...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - Configuration - XSD file dependenices require internet access

running the following command requires internet access:wsdl2java -uri EGO_registration_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri EGO_users_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri Soam.wsdl We don't want any dependencies outside of FreddieMac, so all XSD files(including the depen...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Not under consideration

Install - Use an alternative method to get the glibc version

profile.platform core dumped when calling /lib64/libc.so.6 after updating bash. Subsequently, Red Hat patch addressed the bash problem (see https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223). Request is to use another method to get the glibc version with...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Configure VSH CPU and memory thresholds at per ESXi host level

Our environments has huge amount of VMware vClusters. Each vCluster contains dozens ESXi hosts. We plan to create 2 to 4 VMs on each ESXi hosts under VSH control. If the VSH threshold configuration only can be changed cross all hosts in a vCluster...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - SSM rackware scheduling

Ability to make SSM “rack aware” like in map-reduce and preference to schedule workload on local nodes
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Require dynamic shared library for libsoamapi.a

Is there a dynamic linked .so for libsoamapi.a? CVA group needs to use it to build their own self-contained dynamic library for their java apps to load…
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

[Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data (large project)

Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data between log filesa. ssm to simb. vemkd to pemc. master lim to slave limsd. ego services to vemkd and egosce. sessionid to taskid and the execution hosts of the tasks
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Audit - Log OS User name in EGO Service Controller audit log

EGO Service Controller Audit logs the EGO user and not the OS account issuing egosh command. Additionally, the EGO user is incorrectly logged when the same OS user logs in on different terminals.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration