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Spectrum Symphony

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[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
over 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

Matrix - Cloudera lastest version integration (CDH5.0)

SDMCC has ordered 70 PowerLinux box plus Symphony, GPFS to run big data analytics application, the application was developped at CDH5.0 (MRv2). Symphony MR to integrate with CDH can bring better performance, reliablity to SDMCC.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

IBM certifying latest docker containers versions for use with Symphony products

It will be useful for IBM Symphony would certified new docker versions which address bugs and enhance the product. Currently a Morgan Stanley application running on AWS where the dockers are hanging. By certifying the latest docker version IBM can...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 10 Under review

suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

asking for the feature request where the suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod in cases where tasks continue to run for suspended sessions when hosts where the tasks were running before...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

[Process]ToSlotRatio implementation across soam and ego

In symphony SOAM layer, in application profile, service instance has serviceToSlotRatio defined which tells the system how much cluster compute resources each symphony task would take upon execution.* Funny enough, there is no such serviceToSlotRa...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration