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[Security][RFE][PIMCO] - INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works PAM

INCLUDED_USERGROUP parameter works as designed for AD security use case.There is no such functions designed in PAM. We request to add this function for PAM as well.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

HostFactory GUI improvement

HostFactory/Cloud GUI improvementConfiguration:1. Add configuration change for requestors with application list check button 2. Change provider configuration json file to the form with pull down values and explanation for each parameters3. Add act...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

SD_SSM_RUN_AS_CLUSTER_ADMIN

Syntax value DescriptionDetermines if SSM processes are run as the OS cluster administrator. If this parameter is set to TRUE, SSM uses the same OS cluster administrator permissions that SD uses. In this case, SSM processes also run as the cluster...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Delivered

Spinning docker containers from cluster admin but as service account process

This is the email discussion we had with Michael Fieman from IBM. Hi Sandeep, David First, the RFE 140136: Symphony with SELinux had been fully completed and had been delivered tothe Fix Center with URL for your download available at:http://www.ib...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered

Forcefully terminating lingering SSM and restarting on another management host

Customer largest production cluster PG1 had an incident on March 13. PG1 span over 2 ~ 3 DCs. There was a network failure between two DCs in the morning. VEMKD and SSM were running at different DCs. Customer tried to disable the app so they can re...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Delivered

[RFE][PIMCO] - Client environment variable for Python

This is an enhancement for RFE103869, we would like to get rid of sourcing environment profile (ego.conf) for client in Python to make client portable. So, besides EGO_MASTER_LIST, KD_PORT, we would like to add EGO_SEC_PLUGIN as env parameter to d...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Delivered

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - SMC - smcadmin app listplacement for a single application

Add a new parameter to "smcadmin app listplacement" to list the policy for a single application
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Delivered