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Solaris 11.3.1 Workload Manager Enhancement Request

Baxter is requesting updates to Workload Manager that willenable the following functionality for the 11.3.1 Solaris build ofInfoServer WLM: 1. allow queueing of sequences and 2.grouping the execution of sequence with its associated jobs.
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Transfer of term relationships from asset (column) of one DB host system to an asset (column) of another DB host system

===============Problem Scenario=============== An organization has recently migrated one of their databases (let's say, they shifted from SQL to PostgreSQL). As a result there have been changes to the host name of the DB, DB name, Schema name etc....
over 3 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

importing a job from project isx archive

as part of our data stage backup plan, we used to backup projects every week. but there is no option to restore 1-2 jobs in the current method from archive. can you include this feature for istool import.
almost 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Planned for future release

The request expire time for HF scheduled request

We are expecting the instance request overwrite the RequestExpiry set in Template, and keep the request active until end time set by the scheduled request. There is high chance instance got terminated by AWS due to various reasons. Keeping the req...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Future consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Please provide roll back feature for information server fix packes

We have experienced technical problem with fix packs of IBM information server ( v 11.3.0) and not able to roll back . Due to this we have system downtime. We request IBM to please provide roll back feature on FP on information server side so we c...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

systemd unit file for starting symphony during boot

Currently, the symphony start up script is set under /etc/init.d. We expects to have systemd unit file for symphony start up. Esepcally we are upgrading to RHEL8
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists