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Build Forge Options menus overlay the Name column

Build Forge Options menus overlay the Name column making it extremely difficult to determine which Name has been chosen.
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 7 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...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Need buildforge agent rpm for Redhat Linux on Power

IBM has rpms for the buildforage agent for linux on intel and z. We need an rpm for the buildforge agent on power. Currently seeking for bfagent-7.1.3.4.0-0006
almost 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 4 Not under consideration

Toggle to control related object links in left nav

Due to the large number of records we've collected in BuildForge, navigation performance has slowly degraded over time. Through talks with support, we believe a significant portion of this is attributed to the queries taking place on almost every ...
almost 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...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Restarting broadcast step pick up failed server

Restarting broadcast step picks up random server rather than failed server. One of purpose of using broadcast is to run a step at all matching servers. However, failed step randomly select a server based on selector rule. As a result of this behav...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 5 Not under consideration

"_MAP" variable not working for AD accounts.

mapped drive by _MAP trigger is not exposed to step command when non-LocalSystem starts bfagent service regardless user mode bfagent or service mode. However, "net use" by step command always works fine regardless user mode/serice mode, LocalSyste...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

?On Project' properties are not honoured below the project level.

?On Project' properties are not honoured below the project level.
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 2 Not under consideration

Connect Eclipse Problem list to BuildForge

Compile error in the build log shall be available in the Eclipse problem list for easy navigation to error in the source.This should be done by use of log filters. So, the error or warning filters shall be put into the list.
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration