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Spectrum symphony Fix pack + installer package

As the Fix pack available is quite large on top of the base installer package, we have some space limitation while building it into our ami/images. Would be useful to have a repackaged installer already containing the fixes in the fix packs in one...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Needs more information

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...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 6 Delivered

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered

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 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

AWS Symphony 7.2.0.2 grid cluster switch not working

Symphony client switching among grid clusters build with symphony 7.2.0.2 is not working. It works fine with one cluster, when Client try to connect with other cluster it is failing. Issue tracking through IBM Case#TS005233759 and requested RFE fo...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Delivered