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Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 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...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 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...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted