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Build Forge

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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...
almost 8 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 8 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
over 8 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...
almost 9 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...
about 9 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...
about 9 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

Please add feature to rotate buildforge log

Build forge log file is created under BF_HOME directory once BF engine is started. This log file grow to unlimited (over 6GB in 40 days in my case). Restart of the server will remove this file and created again. The problem with this is - Hard to ...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Target BF 8.0.0.3: A way to decrypt all the assign hidden in the agent, for easier the upgrading / project usage from V7.x

Mirror from the following ROCR work item, as requested by Eric / Qian Yang: https://jazz.net/jazz09/web/projects/Rational%20Build%20Forge#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=31422 Content: https://l2l3-cmn-rtc.ratl.swg.usma.ibm.com:94...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 with Web Browser in Build Forge

Build Forge is not supporting TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 with Web Browsers, which is critical security requirement for our project due to security issue SSL 3.0. Need support for all TLS protocols
almost 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration