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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

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

Feature to log information in the Synergy Web server log when a user starts and stops a Synergy session

When a user logs in and out in Synergy, the information is only recorded in the user's log.There is no way for the Synergy Administrator to know exactly when the users are logged or not. Logging information when a user logs in and out in the Syner...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Do not report Admin Users in the Active Users Report

We have 49 production databases loaded on 1 Change context. When you log onto the admin home page, the active users list provides a very large number of active users, however, when you hit the "Total Users" link you find out that you really have t...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

Group security should provide an option to prevent security settings

We have different teams working on the same projects: some files should be readable and modifiable by anybody, some others should be accessed only by special security group members. Very often group managers wrongly set security permissions to fil...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 6 Not under consideration

Synergy Should Provide Recursive Project Compare Option

One of my users requested this enhancement and was surprised we hadn't already put this in. If you have a project that contains sub-projects then when you want to compare the overall project you have to go through a bunch of manual sub project com...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 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

Synergy Performance Degradation with Long Duration Operations

When doing an operation that holds onto back end sessions for extending lengths of time, the Synergy application gradually slows down. We've seen operations that initially take less than a second per file end up taking >5 minutes per file by th...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Change: Need support for Windows Server 2012 compatibility

We currently have Change 5.3.0 and Synergy 7.2.0 hosted on the same physical server running Windows Server 2003, providing config/change control for a long-life (25-years or more) software product line. This host OS is nearing end-of-life and our ...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

'Use version' action is not logged in any file

'Use version' action is not logged in any file
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration