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Once an initial uplift build home has been created at a specific version, can we later recreate it to jump straight to a newer version and skip the intervening steps?
Can a guideline/notes field support rich text formatting (bold, lists, etc.), or is it plain text only?
A remote middleware installer action fails with an error suggesting the arguments or action name weren't recognized correctly.
During a release update, can the same customization work be split across two different topic branches for different steps of the process?
Do permission sets carry over automatically between major application generations (like Apps 9 to Apps 10), or do we start from the standard defaults?
How do we get a missing report/document translation added for a specific language that isn't already delivered?
An on-prem middleware certificate installation fails during a migration to Cloud, even after trying several approaches.
Setting the build place to "Implementation Mode" fails when trying to create a new build home for a remote deployment.
Is there a recommended Oracle database connection mode for an IFS installation?
Can we host the IFS database on a cloud database-as-a-service offering instead of a self-managed Oracle instance?
What's a proper way to back up a middleware server before applying deliveries or reconfigurations, instead of relying only on infrastructure-level VM snapshots?
A WebLogic-based delivery installation repeatedly fails with a generic "failed executing build target" error at the middleware installation step.
Are specific functional components (like planning-board or operational-plan style modules) a separately purchased add-on, or included as standard?
How should a known critical CVE affecting a component IFS uses (like a Log4j-class vulnerability) actually be addressed?
Can the Aurena option be removed from the landing page so users only see the older client option?
Is there a way to hide irrelevant, greyed-out options from a right-click context menu instead of showing every possible option every time?
Can the same custom field value shown on one page be duplicated onto a different page so it can also be searched there?
Process-flow diagrams or images in the online technical documentation stop rendering, in more than one browser.
A middleware server backup that used to complete in well under an hour now runs long and trips a watchdog-timeout error.
For a fresh remote installation, we expected an initial build home to already exist in the build place, but there isn't one — is that expected?
Should the database server and the application server be installed on the same machine, or kept separate?
During horizontal clustering setup, the machine name isn't showing up where expected in the middleware configuration.
Is there a way to see all existing settings in a history/audit logging configuration screen at once, instead of clicking through entries one by one?
How do official patches interact with our own customization layer during our build and delivery process?
When running an Update Analyzer and it flags certain files as "No Impact," is it safe to skip detailed verification of those files entirely to save time?
Is there a tool to assess how deployed configurations in an environment will be impacted before applying an update?
Is Stream Serve-based document/output functionality still available in IFS Cloud, or has it been fully replaced?
Users intermittently get a connection-timeout style system exception while navigating the application, seemingly at random.
Can IFS run on a different database engine (like Microsoft SQL Server) instead of Oracle?
When switching from a Java-based print agent to a .NET-based one, does the new agent need a bigger server?
Is there a direct equivalent to the old sticky-notes feature in Cloud, or does it need a custom solution?
How do we add a list-of-values (LOV) style dropdown to an existing field in Aurena?
An upgrade script hangs indefinitely while deploying a specific database file, with no clear error.
A migration job cleanup step fails with an error, and the job's "Executed By" field appears empty.
A custom tab created and visible under one profile (like the application owner's) doesn't show up on other users' profiles.
A newly installed font doesn't get added to the available font list in Report Designer, even though it's selected and confirmed.
A business-analytics/reporting add-in client fails to open with a generic COM-related error code.
Deleting a record produces a "is a non-existing table" style error that doesn't match any real table name.
Aurena's error/warning/information pop-up messages fade out too quickly to read, and there's no setting to slow them down.
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