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Spectrum Symphony

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Accept () API to tune Windows 2008 Queue Size - Commerzbank

Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable very small queue size ie 200.Some temporary workaround patches were to fine tune setting but To resolve the issue, Commerzbank contacted Microsoft to make the 2008 backlog queue size configurable as in Windows 2...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 2 Delivered

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Enhance symphony patch deployment to avoid interference among package downloaing for different apps/sessions.

Currently the packaging downloading on a compute node are sharing the semaphore for all the apps/sessions. If one of package download is taking long time because of file size or other reasons, it would delay the process for other apps/sessions wit...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Delivered

[SDK and API] - Client connection HA - Client connection API should be resilient when SD's crashing, or failover or network glitch

When SD's experiencing some issues(eg. SD core dumping, SD failing over, or network or glitches), the symphony client should be having retry mechanism, instead of aborting.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered

[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - CLI - login to egosh without exposing password (RFC4492)

Need help to logging into egosh in script without passing password as a command line argument. Command line arguments are inherently insecure and can be observed by users on a machine from e.g. task manager. We need to figure out how to pass passw...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Delivered

Excel 2010 or up support

Symphony only support Excel up to 2007, considering there are new Excel versions, and it's widely used in FSS, the higher version should be supported. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSMK_6.1.1/connect_for_excel/connector_excel_pre...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Matrix - Solaris 10 stlport4 requirements for Symphony 7.1

Need 32 & 64 bit stlport 4 client side driver on Solaris 10 update 9 before March 2015
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Delivered

[CE] Certify RHEL7 on v6.1.1 - Morgan Stanley

RHEL7 on v7.1 being supported -- back port this support to v6.1.1 once 7.1 is released.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

Symphony 6.1.1 with LSF 9.1.1 multihead setup support for SLES 11sp3

Big Financial server customer requires SLES 11 sp3 support for Symphony 6.1.1. The customer plans to start a Symphony/LSF multihead POC soon using 6.1.1 on SLES 11sp2 but will be soon upgrading their systems to SLES 11 sp3.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Delivered

Apache Spark support for Symphony MapReduce

Apache Spark is a data analytics cluster computing framework that has increased performance over the map reduce paradigm. Providing support for Apache Spark in the Symphony framework will provide more options to for data scientists for data under ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

Certify GCC 4.8 with RHEL 6 for Symphony 6.1.1

Certify GCC 4.8 with RHEL 6 for Symphony 6.1.1
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Delivered