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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

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...
over 7 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...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 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

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

Build Forge Agent On Windows requires superuser rights for CPU_LOAD scanning

CPU_LOAD cannot be scanned if UAC is enabled.The WMI interface should be used to gather CPU_LOAD info instead of the shared memory segment (which requires the agent to be in administrator mode)
almost 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 4 Not under consideration

Remediate the limitation on Snapshot Set buttons in the UI

In a Build Forge deployment of over 1000 projects, the snapshot set icon does not appear reliably on each project that contains snapshots. This is due to an array variable used with the size of 1000 to collect the list of projects to be parse and ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Build forge PHP support for 5.5.x and above - Qualys Guard scan fails on PHP 5.3.x

PHP 5.3.x buldled with Build forge 7.1.3 has security vulnerabilities as per Qualys Guard security scans. We are unable to resolve the vulnerabilities by upgrading PHP libraries to 5.5.x as per the recommendation as they are not compatible with bu...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration