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Spectrum Symphony

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SSM dump after a crash

When a SSM process crash, have a possibility to automatically have a dump or even more logs details
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Additional Feature in Symphony existing commands

Is it possible to have some enhancement in our existing symphony commands like soamview session or soamview task where we can ask IBM to add more information related to job termination and Pending reasons like below examples . And Job submission t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

non-root user should work with Gridsync (RSA)

RSA service is started as non-root user in our env. This make gridsync does not work as expect when the dataset is not owned by the execution user of RSA
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Not under consideration

HF requestor goes with session Type

Currently "startup_cores_if_no_history" go with application. We request it can go with session. In fact, if requestors can set based on session type, that will be great.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Not under consideration

Automatically migrate the management-host when the management-host has insufficient resource

Anthony, We have more applications in our Platform Symphony 7.2 cluster and we observe the following failures from time to time when the cluster is busy. Caused by: com.platform.symphony.soam.SoamException: Domain :A new connection with ID 3826091...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 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

Flops unit on compute

Add Flops unit of compute on Symphony and Multi-Cluster in addition of CPU unit. Add this metric capacity on host information and on the resource plan.More over it'll be very interesting for Cloud computing.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 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