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Rational Other

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Query Doesn't Search Beyond 64 characters

We have ccm text boxes that contain more than 65 characters in them. As a result, when we run a query, we don't get all of our information back. We would like to be able to run a query on an ccm text box that searches beyond the 65 characters. Bei...
about 6 years ago in Rational Other / Change 4 Not under consideration

Include Synergy and Change Roles Matrix in Documentation

Synergy 7.2 and Change 5.3 have changed the way roles are displayed/assigned. For example, Synergy now has the "Admin Interface" and Change only shows a subset of Synergy-specific roles. (Whereas before, all roles would be shown.) With each tool r...
about 7 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 7 Not under consideration

DCM : Show object version in preview dialog box

For Rational Synergy 7.2.1, in the DCM Preview dialog you have theses informations : Object, Type, Instance, Owner, Release, Database and Modified Time Could you add the "Version" of each objet displayed in the preview list
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 7 Not under consideration

Support for new Linux versions neded

Support for Suse Linux Enterprise System 11 will be dropped in 03.2019. IBM Rational Synergy and Change will continue to be used for many years. Support for a supported operating system is needed.
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Change 3 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 8 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

FAQ Configuring IBM Rational Change to use the hostname instead of the IP address

In the browser window from the change, to the future in the URL is no longer the IP address will be displayed, but only the DNS alias.
over 8 years ago in Rational Other / Change 4 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

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...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 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

'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