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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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GRID GUI to display the package information that are currently installed

There's a visibility gap in GUI when it comes to showing package-level details for installed applications, which is causing friction for both our team and the application teams who rely on that data. Current Workflow Summary Issue: GUI does not ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Under review

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration

.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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

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 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

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...
over 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 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 4 Needs more information

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration