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Include an option in the EJB Project wizard to configure EJB client jars to the EAR lib directory

This is created in response to RATLC02596350 There were differences between the way EJB client jars were configured when created in the EJB project wizard. The EJB client jar was added to the root of the EAR upon creation but added to the lib dire...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

RAD and DevOps: ANt Tasks to export partial EAR/WAR/EBA etc.

With RAD or the Build Utility we can export a full EAR/WAR/EBA etc.If we use the RAD Ant tasks as the way to create the artifacts to use in a DevOps scenario with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, it would be useful to be able to build a jar file that contain...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Merge Page Designer and Rich Page Editor into Page Editor

I use Rational Application Developer v9 with the Page Designer and the Rich Page Editor and I especially use the "Code an Action"/Quick Edit button to get a quick snippet of my code. I find it tiring to have to switch between the Page Editor and t...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Access WAS Application OSGi Console from RAD

RAD should help developers to test their applications on WebSphere Application Server. For that, it is possible to create profiles without using the PMT directly from the command line (e.g.).So for OSGi application developers, it should be possibl...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Reduce CPU overhead of WAS profiling

Try to reduce high server CPU overhead during profiling sessions by providing additional configuration options for profiling session to reduce amount of profiling tracing data such as only profile public java methods. Often this is enough to find ...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Fully implement default schema and allow other properties for AS/400 Toolbox for Java driver in Database connection

The IBM data tools from Rational Application Developer is included in Rational Aplication developer for Power Systems Software which is used to develop software on the IBM i platform (formely AS/400). It includes a driver to connect to the IBM i (...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

Have RAD generate JAX-WS WSDL files into 3 parts

Have RAD generate JAX-WS WSDL files into 3 parts to adhere to "best practice" suggested by IBM WSRR. Specifically, this WSRR best practice calls for storing WSDL into these 3 pieces: 1) Interface2) Port3) Binding We would like to see RAD provide a...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

WebService client generation should display a warning when non-default namespace is entered and WSDL has multi target ns-es

WebService client generation wizard should display a warning when non-default namespace is entered and WSDL contains multiple target namespaces
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

RFE to have same Quick fix options in Sqlj and Java editors

Quick Fix is different for SQLJ file than for Java file.Java Quick fix gives more options.
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

Request for Help Center install to be part of the product install

This request, for the help center install to be part of the product install so that customers who do not have internet access can install the help center. This is an different from having to download the help center from the web through the local ...
about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release