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Spectrum Symphony

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Spot Instance interruption notice support in HostFactory

AWS will send an interruption notice 2 mins before the Spot Instance is reclaimed. HostFactory currently does not pass the notice to Symphony cluster and application to handle the interruption. We will need this notice to optimize the workload for...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EC2 Fleet support

In SPCS-I-906, we requested launch template support with EC2 Fleet. Given the time constraint at that time, the scope of the RFE changed to launch template support with Spot Fleet. Now with more requirements from our clients, consulted with AWS, w...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Farm out GPU process with Pythonwrapper

We would like to farm out GPU process with PythonWrapper
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Under review

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Needs more information

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release