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Spectrum Symphony

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[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 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Certify for Citi - Symphony cluster configuration verification tools/features

Symphony configuration files to be audited and verified: We have a question from auditing about Symphony cluster configuration verification. The auditing is looking for any features/tools from Symphony that periodically check/verify Symphony clust...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Planned for future release

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

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
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Calculate deserved slots only based on active i.e. non-idle consumers in e.g. Symphony HostFactory symA requestor

This comes from discussion in TS009907566 "Hostfactory scale up while cluster had free slots". "egosh consumer view" provides, in addition to other outputs, "Planned Quota" and "Share Quota", for a particular resource group (RG): "Planned Quota" i...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 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.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under consideration

Fileshare

Instead of using NFS / SMB fileshare for symphony, could we have S3 storage too
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Planned for future release

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release