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IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services

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Indicate in EWM Advanced properties page if when modifying a property a server restart is needed

Indicate in EWM Advanced properties page if when modifying an advanced property a server restart is needed, the same way it is done in JRS (rs) Advanced properties.At the moment, you need to export the diagnostics and check the Update Policy colum...
14 days ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 0 Future consideration

Show the progress of an ongoing rebase activity

rebase can take up to a day and there is no progress shown, only in active services it is shown as running
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Unassigned 0 Future consideration

Tool to automate DB password encryption on teamserver.properties

Due Company policies, password and even DB passwords need to be frequently changed.Each change does need to be done either by jts/setup page or through the app/admin - database connections page. Customer would like to have a tool that could be exe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 0 Future consideration

[CMMC] Last accessed screen to be concealed or grayed out after session termination

Our company performs work for the Government and in order to continue to receive contracts from the Department of Defense we must fulfill Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) requirements. Finding AC.3.019 requires that when a user se...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 1 Future consideration

Automatically reconnect to database on initialization

When IBM ELM first starts, it only tries to connect to the database server once. If IBM ELM cannot connect, then IBM ELM enters a fault state and does not try again to reconnect - even if the Database Server comes online again. This is an issue as...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Installation 0 Future consideration

Enable history for the repository permissions and Client Access Licenses.

we are facing multiple access related issues, where it would helpful to understand the removal of repository permissions and Client Access Licenses history for a particular user.
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Licensing 0 Future consideration

ability to stop long running services on ELM applications

In ELM applications, (CCM, RM, QM,..) in the "Active Services", some Services runs for long time (in days). They either have some user id or no user id info. There is no way to stop these services. It is also unclear if these services also contrib...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Unassigned 3 Future consideration

[CMMC] Show User Last Logged In Date/Time in JTS

In response to Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance, we need to identify the last login date of users and archive users that haven't logged in within the last 180 days. CMMC Finding IA.3.086 requires that user accounts be "...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Licensing 2 Future consideration

[CMMC] Distinguish between Active and Inactive Users

As a part of the CMMC program, there is a need to distinguish between Active and Inactive User sessions in the ELM Suite. AC.3.019 requires that user sessions that have been inactive for a specific time period be terminated. In order to implement ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services 2 Future consideration

Provide public archive / restore APIs for all domains

We are currently working on a scripted solution to reduce the very large number of configurations in GC, DNG and ETM on our server. This activity is mainly based on several IBM recommendations that we have to keep the server clean and that so many...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Administration 0 Future consideration