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Spectrum Symphony

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Adding version control mechanism for Symphony config files

Adding version control mechanism to Symphony config files for easy tracking and rolling back. The files should at least include: grid config files: ego.conf, ego.shared, ego.cluster, ConsumerTree.xml, ResourceGroups.xml. users,xml. etc application...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API support for allocation stats

we realized that allocation info is not exposed by Rest API, currently we need to do a lot of parsing for egosh alloc command output for that. Can we add an alloc feature for ego rest api so modern systems can directly retrieve such info. ideally ...
7 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 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...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Support more than 50 Characters Password on Symphony for Windows Impersonation User

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=consumer-configuring-windows-password Here it shows 31 chars or fewer as the limit. However we have an internal requirement of the account lockout policy that mandates the length to be more...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

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.
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable AWS pricecapacityoptimized allocation strategy for all AWS providers

Allocation strategy price-capacity-optimized is recommended by AWS for spot workloads specifically. This allocation strategy should be the first preference and the default allocation strategy for most Spot workloads. It is recommended for workload...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

HF timeout interval required for querying application demand on cloud clusters

SSM was unresponsive due to the "select" issue we have seen before... Investigating why symA can not recover from the fact that one SSM is not responding Need enhancement for the symA requestor logic to deal with unresponsive SSM of one applic...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

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