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Rational Other

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Fix behavior of Terminate Threads setting

Setting the Terminate Threads setting to Yes (default is No) is described as having the following effect: "Determines when a threaded step fails. All other active thread blocks in the same project are stopped", which is what we want to happen. Ref...
7 months ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 0 Future consideration

Support for SAML authentication

Direct access to central authentication servers using ldap/s protocol will not be allowed in many companies in the near future. Authentication must be possible using SAML and/or OpenID/OAuth
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 1 Not under consideration

Re-enable tool centric access management in Rational Change

With Rational Changes alternative to RDS, direct access to LDAP server (provided in Change 5.3.2.2), it is not longer possible to give access to Change Requests using tool specific means. Access to Change Requests is maintained using Access Contro...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 1 Not under consideration

Keep preferences when moving databases to new location when using direct LDAP connection

With direct connection from Rational Change to a corporate LDAP server (Change 5.3.2.2), the possibility to move a database to a new location in the file system while keeping all existing preferences has been removed.In RDS this was possible by ex...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 1 Not under consideration

Keep preferences when renaming user when using direct LDAP connection

With direct connection from Rational Change to a corporate LDAP server (Change 5.3.2.2), the possibility to rename the ID of users while keeping their existing preferences has been removed.In RDS this was possible by a combination of setting the "...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 1 Not under consideration

Rational Synergy Software for Solaris

Rational Synergy Software support for Solaris,at least a client package for Solaris is needed
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 3 Not under consideration

Ration Change : Option to disable the Reset Password dialog

In Change 5.3 configuration options : to have an option to disable the Reset Password dialog box. In our case, Change use RDS to store the users preferences but the authentication is made in passthrough mode with the enterprise directory.
over 7 years ago in Rational Other / Change 4 Not under consideration

Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface and Java 11

In our company we offer the IDE Eclipse for our Java developers, which includes "Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface". From Eclipse 2020-09 Java 11 is required: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Eclipse_4.17_.282020-09.29 Please off...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 3 Not under consideration

Queue Refresh of Manifests for All Agents in BuildForge

System : Rational BuildForgeActor : Needs a new Feature to Queue Manifest Refresh for all Servers avalilable in BuildForge BuildForge is commonly used tool in our organization for Version Management, Build and Deploying applicaitons into WebSphere...
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

Rational Synergy 7.2.2 & Change 5.3.2 - Compatibility with RHEL8

We will use Rational Synergy 7.2.2 and Rational Change 5.3.2 on RHEL7 but some of our clients absolutely wants to use RHEL8 for security reason.Currently, Synergy 7.2.2 is not certified compliant with RHEL8, could you add this compliance certifica...
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 3 Not under consideration