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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Enforce time threshold on editor services

The code editor seems to offer some background services (highlighting, indexing, code lookup, mouseover code, etc.) In realistically sized workspace, this can slow development. Selecting text in an editor window results in the mouse icon changing ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

Build forge PHP support for 5.5.x and above - Qualys Guard scan fails on PHP 5.3.x

PHP 5.3.x buldled with Build forge 7.1.3 has security vulnerabilities as per Qualys Guard security scans. We are unable to resolve the vulnerabilities by upgrading PHP libraries to 5.5.x as per the recommendation as they are not compatible with bu...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Export / Import bookmarks feature

It would be nice to have a bookmark import/export feature for those who use bookmarks extensively.
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

Enhance New Web Project wizards to allow folder location outside of workspace

Our team uses RAD for Java/WebSphere application development. In RAD 8.5 and 9.0, we need to use the New Web Project wizard to create web application projects. This wizard lacks the ability to select a project location. We store projects outside o...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Support of Windows 8.1 Clients in Rational Synergy 7.2.1

Support of Windows 8.1 Clients in Rational Synergy 7.2.1
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error - liberty version 8.5.5.0

liberty_version = "8.5.5.0" - Error when there is a special character in URL (for domain) like '%' (e.g. - http://localhost:9080/mrm/s1%/login ). SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error. Exception Message: [URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Restarting broadcast step pick up failed server

Restarting broadcast step picks up random server rather than failed server. One of purpose of using broadcast is to run a step at all matching servers. However, failed step randomly select a server based on selector rule. As a result of this behav...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 5 Not under consideration

Need an equivalent to "%this_database" for Change Queries

In Synergy, one can do the following in a query: modifiable_in='%this_database' Is there an equivalent keyword in Change? I tried this exact syntax in Change and it doesn't work. But since %user and %username are different between the tools hoped ...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Change 4 Not under consideration

[wi 101958]Rational Asset Manager must be able to Distinguish Versions Properly

RAM considers assets with versions of "1" and "1.0" to be different.This is wrong and should be corrected.
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Codegeneration: Generate a forward declaration for a shared aggregation (in stead of inclusion)

- In Rose-RT a shared aggregation would generate a forward declaration: You don't have to know the contents, only the name of the class. In CP2 an inclusion is generated instead: D_FooBar.h: #include . That can lead to dependency creep.
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration