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Spectrum Conductor

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Running Spark Master as cluster admin user

Currently Spark Master runs as the execution user specified in the SIG which happens to be different from cluster admin and depends on SIG tenant/consumer group. That spark master resources such as logs are owned by tenant user makes it difficult ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Not under consideration

GUI based SIG log level change

GUI based cluster admin ability to modify SIG/Spark master log level. This will reduce operational dependency on root and make it a well supported solution for problem investigation.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Optimize SIG package deployment for upgrade or rollback

SIG package deployment takes upto 10 minutes or so in a 50+ SIGs and 1000+ nodes cluster. Refactoring SIG deployment such that package distribution and enablement are independently managed. This will allow scheduling new SIG package distribution a...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Cluster level Job ID search

Supporting cluster level Job ID search at GUI level for operational ease.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

SIG config deployment optimization

SIG configuration update currently does full SIG deployment which includes Spark package as well. That on a large cluster with many SIGs can run into hours of deployment. This RFE is requesting to optimize SIG deployment process for Spark configur...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

R Studio integration with Spectrum Conductor

Background:The versions of RStudio we have are outdated, and also set up outside Conductor. This limits scalability, and also usability as they are not embedded in the Conductor/Spark environment. We would like to integrate RStudio with conductor 2.5
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

IBM and Open JDK new JRE mapping to Oracle 8u301 or more

IBM JRE and Open JDK used by Conductor management services, need urgent fix for July CVEs. As such new versions that map to Oracle 8u301 or more are requested. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2021.html#AppendixJAVACVE-2021-2388 ( hots...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Planned for future release

IBM and OpenJDK 1.8.0_281 request

Require Open and IBM JRE that map to Oracle JRE 8u291 to remediate outstanding CVEs related to these JDKs in Spectrum conductor 2.4.1.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 1 Not under consideration

MAPR dataconnector support for spark 3.0

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR dataconnector support for the SPARK 3.x for Conductor 2.5.0.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Dask support on Conductor based on OpenCE conda packages for Power

Conductor 2.5.0 brings Dask to light. In order to use Dask, one needs to create a conda environment for it. Currently release of Conductor builds that conda environment leveraging WML-CE 1.7.0, a project which was sunset in 2020. It should be leve...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration