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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

Default entries for synergy connection at the eclipse plugin

Everytime you create a connection at the synergy eclipse plugin you have to search the installation path, set the userid, set the database path and the server name.At our company we have one installation path and datanbase path und server is all t...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 6 Not under consideration

Do not log Relationships Attempts in the Transition Log when the objects are already related

When a user attempts to relate two objects that are already related, the attempt is recorded in the transition log.
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 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
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Supply admin property for work area changes to default to 'Modify this project only'.

Supply a database property that allows an admin to set the default of the Work Area properties for applying changes to be 'Modify only this project' instead of 'Modify this project and all subprojects'.For our company, when dealing with grouping p...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

CMSynergy client should display info about cache server status

- in Help menu, or anywhere else, add an option telling you if a cache server is defined, what is it's host name, connectivity details and status. - in Help menu , in the 'About IBM Rational Synergy' option, add also info about the cache server pa...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 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)
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 4 Not under consideration

Need documentation about the ccm_cache command options -port, -http, -https, -debug

The ccm_cache command in Synergy 7.2.1 has several options:-start, -stop, -status, -port, -http, -https, -debug Some options are obvious, like the -start, -stop, -statusBut it would be good to have a description of the other options:-port, -http, ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 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 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Change needs to be supported on RH 7.0

My company is upgrading to Red Hat 7.0. We need Change support on this OS and well as Synergy.
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Change 7 Not under consideration