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Asset Manager

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RAM/MS Office Integration: Provide file locking on MS Office files downloaded from an asset for editing

Provide file locking on MS Office files downloaded from an asset for editing? There is no way for users to ensure serial editing of Microsoft Office documents contained in an asset. All documents downloaded from an asset are always read/write.? Pr...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

RAM/MS Office Integration: Provide ability to set number of file versions tracked within a single asset version

Provide ability to set number of file versions tracked within a single asset version? Provide a mechanism to limit and/or automatically purge versions of a file contained in an asset version.? Each time a file is updated in one version of an asset...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

RAM office plug-in for Microsoft Office 2013

RAM office plugin support for MS Word 2013. Only 2007 and 2010 are currently supported, but we need get support for 2013. The Office Plug-In is an essential piece that clients need.
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Create persistent, "latest" featured content

Our team (in fact, our enterprise) commonly uses RAM to publish documentation for consumption by disparate teams who have various levels of familiarity with RAM. In many cases, we would like to publish a single URL that the users can bookmark as a...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration

Scroll Selections in List Function

In searched lists you can scroll by using the buttons:Previous | 1-25 of 32 | Next Would it be better to have a different scroll function.
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Generate an optional auto-incremented integer asset ID field

RAM to generate an optional integer asset ID field for whichthe starting number can be specified and which increments by 1 for eachnew asset of that type created. The field to be displayed with prefixwhich can be specified for the asset type e.g. ...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Request for secure SMTP in RAM

Following working with Emanuel Stanciu (RAM ocnsultant from IBM) to set up email notifications from our RAM instance, we discovered that RAM is not compatible with secure SMTP (unlike the other Rational tools we have.) As such there are no fields ...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

iRAM Login Issue

Hello,This is related to PMR# 72745,49R,000.We have seen a problems with few of the users who try to login iRAM the first time after their ID with IBM has changed, say - the employees who due to certain situation get their details changed such as ...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Enhancements to attached file types

IRAM needs to be updated to automatically recognize file extensions for current common used types of files. Right now, it only appears to automatically recognize and process *.doc, *.ppt, *.xls. But there are many other file extensions used (e.g.,...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Missing permission for persons or groups

When we want to set up permissions of a person or group who using an asset, we can not choose any permission to allow anybody to edit an asset. Please see the attached screen shot.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration