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Spectrum Symphony

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suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
5 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
5 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Partition tasks for resource sharing

Group the task for resource sharing. The scope can be for PythonWrapper only
27 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Dynamic setting max limit at client site for PythonWrapper

Dynamic setting max slot at client level for PythonWrapper. Curently, can only set with profile
27 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Hostfactory config file audit

Like SD, RS, we need to audit HostFactory config files including requestors and providers. The information we need is user name, host info, parameter changed, file name.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Provide a 0penTelemetry instrumented Symphony library

Request to support OpenTelemetry and provide the instrumented Symphony C++ library
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

.Net Core Support for GridSync API

Best if we can do .Net 8 directly. we would like to use GridSync for Data Caching and unify both workload and data entry point by using symphony API. so that we can make the workload entirely portable without have to manage different data solution...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted