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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...
almost 5 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.
almost 5 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 5 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

PIV support for Build Forge

We have a VA government requirement to enable Smart Card login for every tool. At this point, in my research, I don't find that it is currently available. We are being given and April 1st mandate, or face shutdown of the server. We have several pr...
about 6 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Smart Card login for Build Forge authentication

Congress has mandated that all government systems are made smart card compliant. The VA uses BF heavily as the build engine for Rational Team Concert
almost 7 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

BF MJC: Notification template variables no longer available to adaptor

Unlike the Perl engine, the Java engine (MJC / Master Job Controller) does not have the following variables defined during the execution of an adaptor that is linked to a project using an adaptor link: $CONSOLEHOST, $CONSOLEPORT. These are necessa...
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

Adaptor cannot send emails to group when using MJC

We have converted all the projects and libraries to the MJC format on a Test BuildForge instance that is running with a copy of the Production database. When executing an MJC project using the Java engine and the Source Changes adapter, emails can...
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 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...
over 7 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...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration