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Asset Manager

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RAM: Provide a mechanism to clear queued emails (so that users are not spammed once an SMTP server is connected)

My client, British Telecommunications is currently piloting IBM Rational Asset Manager to manage over 40,000 interfaces within their organization. As part of the pilot they are bulk uploading 200,000 assets into RAM (including approvers etc). At t...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration

RAM - Move data between RAM instances/environments

In this release, 7.5.2, it is not possible to backup and restore data from one RAM to another. This was possible in 7.5.1.1. We would like functionality to be able to do this, without coding ourselves. Using Libraries is not an option, we have 12....
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

[wi 97960]RAM 7.5.1.2: Allow Description and short description fields to be selected in Search assets page.

System: Rational Asset Manager v7.5.1.2 RAM ?Search for Assets? page doesn't allow selecting Description and Short Description fields to the select columns list. Because of that, "Download as spreadsheet" will not have Description and Short Descri...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

Enhance themes.zip for making changes in RAM theme.

Hi Team, per case# TS009043557 the RAM Support tech suggested to go for RAF as change in the background color of UI is not having much options. and if we try to make change it looks very odd as one can not change color of all the objects in UI usi...
over 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

New Feature "Asset Type" to be added to the downloaded report.

If I use the “Activity Audit” then select “Asset downloaded” I get the report attached. However, this report do not include all necessary information. We will need at least to add the “Asset Type” on this report to be functional for our purposes, ...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

User management improvement

After creating a new user in ldap, we import the user in RAM and assign the appropriate license via the following menus. Administration > Tools > Update Users and GroupsAdministration > License Management > Enterprise edition publisher...
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide the option to apply a custom icon, by asset type, to show in Visual Browse

Provide the ability for users to associate a custom icon to an asset type, so that if an icon has been associated, Visual Browse will display assets of that type using that icon instead of the basic rectangle.
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Share Saved Visual Browse Templates (Favorites)

Provide the ability for a user to share access to a Favorite Visual Browse template with another user or group of users. This would help facilitate collaborative work on, as well as reviews of, assets that are defined by their relationships (e.g. ...
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Filter which Link Types to Follow when using "Show Related Assets" in Visual Browse

Since showing related assets in Visual Browse (especially two or three levels deep) can cause lots of assets that are "out of scope" to appear, we should provide an optional filter to allow inclusion or exclusion of link types. On suggested implem...
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Identify Link Types in Visual Browse

Provide a means of visually differentiating one type of link from another, within Visual Browse. One suggested implementation is to apply a color or pattern to the link line, preferably with the ability to define the color or pattern by type (pote...
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration