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WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

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...
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Build Forge 0 Future 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 5 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

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 11 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Provide support for detecting custom tag / attribute in .jsp files

There might be other customers like us that depend on some proprietary presentation framework, that provides capabilities through some combination of special tags / attribute values in .jsp files embedded in the applications. If TA data collector ...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 0 Future consideration

WASPreUpgrade + WASPostUpgrade take days to run when processing large files

WASPreUpgrade and WASPostUpgrade allows a migration between two WAS versions, e.g. 8.0 to 9.0 or 8.5 to 9.0. The WASPreUpgrade process effectively exports the data from the original profile. The WASPostUpgrade effectively imports the data from the...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Not under consideration

can the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries and/or the Migration Toolkit for Application Source be updated to look for setContextClassLoader calls and warn of potential class loader problems

There are slight differences within WAS and Liberty from a classloading perspective. Sometimes when applications are migrated from WAS to Liberty. You run into some TCCL issues. The solution was to delete the line of code where the context class l...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 0 Planned for future release

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 12 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 3 Not under 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 5 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 1 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 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration