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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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providing a way to add Reference to .NET assemblies from RFT Project on VS instead of editing file manually

provide a way to add Reference to .NET assemblies from RFT Project on VS instead of editing file manually Other assemblies can be added by placing in the RFT customization folder and would be more convenient if all assemblies were handled in same ...
over 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Ability to add Doors Requirement Hiperlink

Have the functionality of a transaction, but instead of a transaction name, allow customer to connect to doors and give it a requirement number. Then like a transaction, you could do a requirement report, error export log would have when the requi...
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 3 Not under consideration

Transaction Data on the WebUI Report

Would like to have the transaction information on the WebUI report like it is on the exportable error report. It gives the beginning of the transaction, all the steps, and the end of the transaction.. time and verdict of pass, fail, inconclusive.
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 3 Future consideration

Add Waitforexistence or isvisible to script

Add the ability to have a waitforexistence or isvisible like in RFT
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 3 Not under consideration

Additional controls in Debug mode

When running application in Debug mode, have the ability to put in stop breaks, pause, start and stop
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 3 Future consideration

Improve the datapool efficiency when using with multiple scripts

Lets assume there are two scripts Script 1 and Script 2. Both of there scripts are using the common data pool. When Script 1(iterate until done) calls Script 2 on first iteration (while the first row is fetched from the data pool) and if Script 2 ...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

Support for RFT playback with different zoom levels in Firefox web browser

Support for RFT playback with different zoom levels in Firefox web browser.Currently playback fails with 120 % or more zoom levels in Firefox web browser
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Not under consideration

Terminal emulator support on Docker image

Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to log a verification point within a JavaScript

It would be wonderful to be able to log a verification point status within a JavaScript. This saves times having to write custom Java Code to then log the status.
over 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

RFT should Accessing embedded Windows PowerBI report

We created the IBM Case TS006713298 in the past concerning a website including WindowsPowerBi. We want to be able to acess the control behind the root tag Even with WebUiEngine we cannot find anything in the code (In Internet Explorer it was acces...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration