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Spectrum Symphony

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Struts 2.5.x delivery for symphony 6.1.1

Struts 2.3 is flagged RED by CITI products team and struts 2.3 should not be used any more in CITI. So need higher version struts for Symphony 6.1.1 DE and Symphony 6.1.1 Masters
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the SSM paging logic

currently SSM holds page files once they are created and does not release the file handles or shrink the page files until SSM terminates. we think an enhancement is required so that the page files can be either released or actively cleaned up once...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][CommerzBank] - EGO API for User Management - REST API for User Add/Remove/Modify as the solution

Java API from 5.1 (UserAdmin) has been depreciated and there is no replacement EGO API in Symphony 6.1.1 which can manage user add/remove.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under 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 9 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 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 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...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration