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Spectrum Symphony

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Supporting the latest Amazon Linux AL2023 w/ Linux kernel 6

We have an application CVATRADER need to run with latest EFS client which is only supported on latest Amazon Linux AL2023 w/ Linux kernel 6. Could IBM spectrum symphony be certified with AL2023 with Linux kernel 6?
27 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Support SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION for Kerberos Enabled Cluster

I just realized that per documentation here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=rw-directly-connecting-recursive-session-spectrum-symphony-session-manager-ssm , SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION is not supported when we...
28 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Under review

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

HostFactory provisioned CPU total limit

Currently, there is limit per provider and max instance per hour per requestor. We request to have total number of CPU limit at HostFactory and configurable. Say there is a parameter called HostFactory_CPU_limit set to 100. I have providerA, B, an...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

add a timeout control for the SOAP receive function stack

Related ticket TS018053983 SD becam unresponsive. Yu Dong Wang (IBM)Mar 03, 2025, 02:49 Hi Jiabin, Checked with development team. There is currently no timer configuration for the function stack. Can you open an RFE so they can add one? The reason...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 6 Under review

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Under review

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

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: ...
12 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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review