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This requirement has been open for more information since May 2018. Unfortunately the statement in the RFE was too generic and did not hold enough detail for us to action. Though we have had some ideas for specific improvements, those ideas have not had enough community support to prove that they are pervasive, so correspondingly this requirement is being rejected. Many improvements have been made to messages as a matter of course over our monthly CD drops. If you have ideas for specific improvements in this area based on the current version of the product then please raise an RFE detailing the use case and specific improvements that could be made.
Thank you so much for your response Johnathan, this gives use something much more specific to work with.
If any other subscribers to this RFE agree that this is the best area to focus on, please comment to show your support.
If anyone has alternative ideas then please post them as well as we will have to curate a prioritised list of suggestions based on customer interest.
I can't remember the specific message IDs I've encountered that could've been improved, but I'll start logging them here going forward.
However, many of the security related issues are difficult to determine due to the lack of ICH408I messages, like when a user is not in globalInvokeGroup or globalAdminGroup and some of the failures for the APPL profile. If those messages are being suppressed intentionally due to concerns of those messages flooding the log, then you could give the customer the ability to set flood control limits in server.xml, such as only show the first X errors or show a max of X errors per ID per time interval (maybe 1 minute while setting up and maybe 24 hours in production).
Thank you for this RFE. We are always looking for ways to improve the usability of our product.Unfortunately, there is not enough detail in this RFE to understand what exactly is being asked for.
To help us act we would love to have some specific examples of user tasks that could be improved by enhancing the communication of specific error conditions. A comment, from each voter on this RFE would be great, ideally containing a top 3 list with specific examples of how the error is communicated today, and how it could be improved.
Many thanks!