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xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded'

xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded' Please refer to case TS019607811 Our bank code adheres to usual code scan tools that flag any security or vulnerabilities within code or configuration. As part of routine code promotion j...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

.Net Core Support for GridSync API

Best if we can do .Net 8 directly. we would like to use GridSync for Data Caching and unify both workload and data entry point by using symphony API. so that we can make the workload entirely portable without have to manage different data solution...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Improve Multicluster overflow capabilities

The main issue with multi-cluster is the inability to set rules for returning tasks to the primary cluster. For example, if the primary site becomes free after tasks have been sent to a secondary site, it would be beneficial to return the load to ...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted