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Add the ability to Pause steps in the Java MJC

With the Perl MJC, when the job runs all the steps are displayed, and you have the ability to select "pause" on any one of the to pause execution of the job at that point. This RFE requests the same functionality for Java MJC jobs. I didn't realiz...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Project/Job search capability requested in Build Forge

We would like the Build Forge UI Filter for Projects, Jobs, etc. to provide search capability using regular expressions.
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Queue Refresh of Manifests for All Agents in BuildForge

System : Rational BuildForgeActor : Needs a new Feature to Queue Manifest Refresh for all Servers avalilable in BuildForge BuildForge is commonly used tool in our organization for Version Management, Build and Deploying applicaitons into WebSphere...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Build Forge v8 Perl Engine should be added as a WIndows Service

The Build Forge v8 Perl Engine currently needs to be started manually from the command line. This also means that there is no way to automatically do this on boot, out of the box. The Perl engine should also be installed as a Windows Service, or s...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Fix behavior of Terminate Threads setting

Setting the Terminate Threads setting to Yes (default is No) is described as having the following effect: "Determines when a threaded step fails. All other active thread blocks in the same project are stopped", which is what we want to happen. Ref...
5 months ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 0 Future consideration

More Verbose to be included in the PERL engine RBF logs

Currently, there is no Build Forge log which provides the status of failure or success of any batch jobs for the Perl version of BuildForge.We got confirmation earlier from IBM that the features we are expecting are available in the java version o...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

Functional ID used with Buildforge requires passworfd management intergration with Cyberark.

CASE: TS002704430We have a Functional ID tpccadm that is used to connect from linux to connect the BF windows agent. We need to be able to use the FID without knowing the password.Citi has an application 'Cyberark' that manages the FID passwords. ...
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 4 Not under consideration

Fix required : Not able to restart RBF job from GUI, when the job is triggered as 'API-Only' user

Issue : When the RBF job which gets triggered from API as "API-Only" user fails, we are not able to restart the job from GUI as "normal" user.Note: GUI is logged in as 'normal' user Work around TSR provided : Use SQL to update the build ownership ...
about 8 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

We need to use/see BF Snapshot with more than 999 projects.

"Snapshots are only visible for the first 999 projects in the Build Forge management console. It would be very useful if this limit could be extended or removed since our customers have over 1400 projects and would like to access all of their snap...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Build Forge Options menus overlay the Name column

Build Forge Options menus overlay the Name column making it extremely difficult to determine which Name has been chosen.
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 7 Not under consideration