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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 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Functional ID used with Buildforge requires passworfd management intergration with Cyberark.

CASE: TS002704430We have a Functional ID tpccadm that is used to connect from linux to connect the BF windows agent. We need to be able to use the FID without knowing the password.Citi has an application 'Cyberark' that manages the FID passwords. ...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 4 Not under consideration

Separation of functionality

We would like the possibility to scale the individual components of eXtremeScale Liberty deploy.
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Not under consideration

XSLD - use LDAP groups to authorize users on grids and maps

Using XSLD we need to configure LDAP groups in order to administer XSLD. Now we can only configure internal groups to manage authorization on grids. The goal wiil bee use LDAP groups instead internal groups
about 7 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Not under consideration

setLockTimeout in client for writes

The ObjectMap.setLockTimeout method only applies to get operations; it does not apply to write operations. Write operations always use the configured lock timeout. We would like the ability to use the setLockTimeout method for write operations in ...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 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 9 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 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 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Need SAML authentication in Build Forge

The State of LA requires SAML to be used for authentication instead of LDAP.
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

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.
about 11 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 7 Not under consideration

Oracle TDE support for Rational Build forge

We would like to implement Transparent data encryption (TDE) for our Oracle 12.2 database and would request that IBM can support this for Rational Build forge.
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration