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Asset Manager

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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 ...
over 9 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 ...
over 9 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.,...
over 9 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.
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Improve performance loading of the assets modified many times

This enhancement is to improve the performance of the loading of assets linked to lifecycle with several policies which have been modified many time.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Change to cursor handling in editor box when pressing enter.

Current design In the description editor box when you press return to a line you have edited. If there is more text in the page following where you insert the linefeed, then you are scrolled past your present point of editing, forcing you to scrol...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Cannot display MetaData in SAS XML file

An XML file was generated from the SAS code:libname MetaTest xmlv2 '/home/gmiscevic/test.xml'; data MetaTest.RecordDet; set sashelp.class (obs=2); ;run;
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

REquest to enhance the RAM API to provide mthods, to able to add ram attribute values based on it's type

We use Ratiional Asset Manager API to submit the assets and add values to the asset attributes. The asset attributes are categorised as various types and one of then is LINK. To set value for this attribute, we need to include some html coding in ...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Add support for additional properties such as Rating and Discussion in REST interface

The RAM REST API (https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RamV2RestApiMain) supports a very limited subset of all RAM asset attributes. I would like to see additional attributes included in the results from queries and available to set on assets. In p...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration