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Asset Manager

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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

Identify Asset State in Visual Browse

Provide an indicator on the asset representation, in visual browse, as to the asset's current state. One suggested implementation is to have a state-representative icon show on one of the lower corners of the asset.
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

Ability to clone Community setup/configuration (user groups, roles, lifecycles, etc., not assets) for new community creation.

As an administrator, I want to be able to clone a communities' setup (user groups, roles, workflows, etc., not assets), so that future IA and DSC communities may be created in a fraction of the time it currently takes.
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

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

Logging activities related to any changes in Lifecycle addition/updation in community

per case TS005591326 support team was not able to identify the reason for some changes done by system process (Repository Process) because there is no logs captured by application when any changes happen to lifecycle in that community.
about 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Approval Delegation: Need ability for an Approver to via a button be able to delegate their approval to another person ...

Need ability for an Approver to via a button be able to delegate their approval to another person, and the asset owner to via a button be able to delegate the approval to another Approver. Sometimes an approver is not available (OOO vacation) and ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 1 Future consideration

To make existing users read-only in RAM

Per case#TS005666416We have a requirement from business to make a list of users read-only to restrict them to make any changes to their assets.Let me know if there is any way to make users read-only in the RAM system. Read-only means for the scena...
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration