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Allow for more than 100 links in RSA Design Manager v 6.

This request is for RSA DM; the only Product option in the online form was Rhapsody DM.Current limit of 100 links from a DM element/component to other JAZZ apps is not adequate for the large application that is being designed and developed. At lea...
over 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration

Addition of a Decision point that has multiple inputs and outputs

In Rational Rose we have models that use a decision point as a combination of a decision node and merge node. We converted our old models over and would like to keep this functionality, whether or not it strictly adheres to the UML 2.1 spec. Right...
about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under consideration

RSM/RSA should not take a license as soon as Eclipse starts

Skatteverket suggests that the RSA tool extends with two new features/functions to meet our needs. 1- We suggest adding an on/off button where the user can decide when he/she needs to use the modelling tool (i.e. requesting a licence from the serv...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration

Integrate RBAC support directly into Design Room One

Currently in order to have RBAC support and Active Directory integration for Design Room One you need to integrate it with the Keycloak application. That means additional installation and ongoing maintenance overhead to get Design Room One up and ...
10 months ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Not under consideration

RSA support for Java 11

we currently use the RSA in version 9.7.1 on Windows. Unfortunately, this does not allow development with Java 11, at most Java 9. When does IBM plan to offer an RSA version with Java 11 support?
about 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

Request to include the ability to visualize C# code to sequence diagrams.

We want to visualize the sequence diagrams for the C# code in RSAD 9.6 but we are unable to do that. We are requesting you to include the ability to visualize C# code to sequence diagrams in fixpack as soon as possible.
about 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

Customize Design Explorer with "Profile Tooling project"

My company has tried the "Profile tooling project" wizard to customize Project Explorer Menu and Diagram palettes and Icons. It seems enough to developp our application based on this principle.We only want to use the same principle (plugin profile...
over 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

RSA DAP: Realization links between conceptual and physical units not checking customized attributes

When you create realization links between conceptual and physical units, the realization link is meant to check that the values defined in the physical unit matches the values defined in the conceptual unit. However, it is only checking the predef...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration

N-ary associations, connectors and links

We would like to be able to draw N-ary (i.e. with more than two ends) associations, association classes, connectors and links as described in the paragraphs 7.3.3, 7.3.4 and 8.3.2 of the UML 2.1.2 Superstructure, dated 07-11-02, and visualized in ...
about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 7 Not under consideration

Enhance RSM/RSA to provide an Interface to Class converter in UML models

When a person models an application using UML, it often happens that an Interface has to be converted to a Class (which may be abstract) and vice-versa. This option would allow the user to right-click on an Interface or a Class and to have an opti...
almost 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under consideration