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Synergy should have option to display a "non-working" Change Integration if Started when no Change Licenses are available

We occassionally run out of licenses or there are times when a Change port goes down. When this happens and a user attempts to log into Synergy, none of the Change integration shows up and there are no errors or warnings to the user that there was...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Perl upgrade to support TLS v 1.2

Customer ITZ Bund is asking for Perl upgrade to support TLS v 1.2, This is really urgent because of fulfillment their security reasons.
over 5 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

In IBM Rational Change, ACLs must be applied in queries before results were obtained

In IBM Rational Change, ACLs must be applied in queries before results were obtained
almost 6 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

More Verbose to be included in the PERL engine RBF logs

Currently, there is no Build Forge log which provides the status of failure or success of any batch jobs for the Perl version of BuildForge.We got confirmation earlier from IBM that the features we are expecting are available in the java version o...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

64 bit JRE for Rational Change

In a Change environment with 32 bit JRE, heap space is limited to 2 GB. In a Change instance with > 100 users online and frequent exchange with other interfaces, this memory does not suffice. It should be possible to use 64 bit JRE in Change, e...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

Support for SLES 15

SLES 15 has been available for half a year. Rational Change and Synergy will be one of the product suites that will be migrated to a new server, most probably in late 2021. Please support SLES 15 for Change and Synergy server.
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

End of Live 2020 for Flashpayer inside IBM Rational Change

We are using IBM Rational Change 5.3.1 and for the Help preparation of the "CR Process-specific Help" the Adobe Flashplayer (Version: 29.0.0.113) is used. The End of Live for this product is announced for 2020 and the browser support from Microsof...
over 6 years ago in Rational Other / Change 6 Not under consideration

IBM Synergy and Rationale Change – automatic install of SSL client certificate

Background: While Synergy supports SSL; there is no facility to seamlessly download and install the client certificate automatically. Siemens have many teams, throughout the globe using Synergy: the administration involved in users having to manua...
over 6 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 6 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.
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 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