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My ideas: Spectrum Symphony

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Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback. Use case: We get some issue on our SSM. The only way to have more details than debug logs ...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Add new support of database : PostgreSQL

Could you please add PostgreSQL as supported database for the new version of SYmphony ?
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

SMC : add user roles on gui

On SMC GUI, we can add user but can't manager their role. Only by CLI. So can you please add it on GUI ?
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

[service/Instance]ToSlotRatio implementation across SSM and ego service

In Morgan Stanley clusters, SSM hosts are configured as part of the mgmt servers specifically grouped into SSM resource group(s). The SSM hosts are grouped by their hardware configurations including: Maximum physical memory, eg: ssm instances of t...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

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

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