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AD.Automatic classification of source code

For many banking clients, their applications are complex, the volume of source code is huge, and most of the code are legacy for decades without appropriate documents and accurate understanding.
over 8 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 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...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

ADDI-Support for current version of Assembler

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the Assembler scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of HIGH LEVEL ASSEMBLER
about 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

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...
about 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Fileshare

Instead of using NFS / SMB fileshare for symphony, could we have S3 storage too
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Planned for future release