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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...
6 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...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

Need SAML authentication in Build Forge

The State of LA requires SAML to be used for authentication instead of LDAP.
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 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...
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Oracle TDE support for Rational Build forge

We would like to implement Transparent data encryption (TDE) for our Oracle 12.2 database and would request that IBM can support this for Rational Build forge.
over 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

Build Forge v8.0.0.3 Fails to Start When non-owner (even root) user do the start

BF v8.0.0.3 can only be started by the instance files owner user. If other user - event root is trying to start it, it will get the following error and the Perl Engine will fail to start:"Starting Build Forge Management ConsoleCan't load 'auto/Sys...
over 5 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

Build Forge v8 Does Not Work on RedHat Linux v7 OS With SELINUX Enabled

We have new servers with OS RedHat Linux v7.3 with SELINUX enabled. We have installed Build Forge Agent v8.0.0.3 on them. The Build Forge Agent connection testing is failing when SELINUX is enabled but is success when SELINUX is disabled. The root...
over 6 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Oracle 12 using OraaS support

We need Build Forge official support from IBM for Oracle version 12.2.0.1 using OraaS (Oracle as a Service) running on Red Hat 7. This would be the backend of the main Build Forge server/engine running zLinux.
over 6 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Interactive Service is not working with Chrome

The Automation testing can not continue with the error. We are using build forge to build the continuous delivery pipeline. We called the automation testing script in build forge step such as "pybot-d D:\pbprdmng\test D:\LF39\ \LF39_pbautotest". B...
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration