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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Hostfactory config file audit

Like SD, RS, we need to audit HostFactory config files including requestors and providers. The information we need is user name, host info, parameter changed, file name.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

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

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

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][CreditSuisse] - Add alternative way of configuring ego.conf parameters in SOAM API (C#, C++, other)

Make it possible to pass ego.conf settings as parameters in SoamFactory.Connect() method. Here is pseudo code demonstrating idea: class ConnectionDetails{ List EgoMasterList; UInt LimPort; UInt KdPort; string EgoClientTsParams; … …} SoamFactory.Co...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

A new environment variable is needed at client side to point the DDT working directory to a local disk

In current release, DDT work directory is controlled by SOAM_HOME ( under SOAM_HOME/work/datamanager/host:port). The customer wants an additional parameter to control DDT work directory explicitly and separate it from SOAM_HOME environmental varia...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Enabling symbloc link of PA conf directory to shared directory

1. The JVM version we are currently using in PA 9.1.2.2 does not work well with s-link 2. With current PA design, PA data collection node does request a CONF directory on local FileSystem, there are some parameters are applied to local binaries, h...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] EGO - Policy - Enforce limit set at parent consumer level under Hybrid model

It is confirmed in PMR 39339,7TD,000 that resource limit set at parent level in hybrid sharing model could be breached and this is not avoidable due to unpredictable workload pattern, e.g two sub-consumers are over-allocated but within parent limi...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Not under consideration