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Show names of enviroment variables in Eclipse

The input mask for the environment variables shown on project start shall visualize the environment variable names like in the webconsole. At the moment the values are displayed.
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Add Eclipse View for Bill of Material

add aditional view for Build Forge Eclipse Plugin for Bill of Material
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Refresh of Build Forge Eclipse Plugin

The Build Forge Views within Eclipse should refresh automatically (like the WebConsole)
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

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.
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Buildforge job monitoring tool

I would like to have a job monitoring tool for the buildforge. here is what we are looking for 1. Is anyway to setup a job minostoring tool so that when the job run more than 3 days it will automatically send the email to the owner of the job as w...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Ability to change high level settings at the same time

Currnet version of Build Forge does not provide ability to change high level settings at the same time.
about 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Enable non-root Build Forge user to reset password of another user.

Assuming appropriate permissions have been set, enable non-root user to reset password of another management console user within Build Forge.
about 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 4 Not under consideration

Improvement of selector flexibility is necessary

It is currently not possible to use selector flexible during a deployment. E.g. once you start a project you define an environment to deploy to (ENV1) which then filters available servers to all of the ones belonging to that environment. Later you...
about 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 5 Not under consideration

Retain LDAP admin password after changing configuration

LDAP admin password field is displayed as blank in BuildForge Management console web page. Any configuration change to LDAP using Buildforge LDAP management console requires password re-entry. This RFE is to request that the LDAP password must be ...
about 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Have Selector choose a Server based on box CPU load so jobs don't fail on busy boxes

Add the functionality to have the Console choose whether a job should run on a given Server based on the current CPU load of the box hosting the agent. Right now some built-ins allow getting CPU load info, however, that info is gathered only at th...
about 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 6 Not under consideration