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Support link migration from active DM projects

The Link Migration RSAD plugin, shipped with Design Room ONE, currently supports only link migration from "externally managed" RSA Design Manager projects. - It should be support to migrate links also from "actively managed" projects.
almost 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Improve documentation: Please add a hint that DR1 deployments on LCOW based Docker containers is not working

On Windows 10 with Docker using Windows containers (that uses LCOW for Linux containers), we got stuck already at the very beginning of the deployment with bringing up the auth container. Error message: "encountered an error during hcsshim::System...
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Aggregation/composition relations display in class diagram

Designers are not able to show the aggregate/composite elements in a nice way.We expect them to be shown as attributes just like in the treeview and the property view.The structured compartment view is not preferred, as the diagram view gets over-...
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

It should be possible to save entered text in the Documentation field in Properties view without having to change focus

It should be possible to save entered text in the Documentation field in Properties view without having to change view focus. The RSA model won't get "dirty" until you switch from the Documentation field to a different field or view.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

RSA DM: Import of an archived profile project needs to be clarified

With regard to the RSA Design Manager product. In Domains > Profile Import, it says:"Alternatively it could be an archive file containing profile project(s)" The sentence needs to be clarified in the Help contents what pre-requisites are requir...
over 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Display in Design Explorer (RSADM) the name of the user that holds the lock on the artifact

While working in RSADM (Eclipse client) in Actively Managed mode with Design manager, I want to see the name of the user that holds a lock on one or more artifacts.
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

RDM Linking should remember previous selections

RDM Linking requires many selections to be made:1. Link Type2. Project area3. Create/Select artifact4. Search kind5. Type of elementetc, depending on the type of search
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

Generate "Depends On" Section of RSA Web Report

When Publishing an RSA Web Report, we would like to see a section that shows the dependencies of classes on one another. For example: Class XXX - Depends On:AAABBBThe following entities depend on Class XXX:CCC
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA Navigate to Diagram Enhancement for Sequence Diagrams

Navigate to Diagram (from selected model element) should be enhanced to Sequence Diagram elements. It is very popular to want to find Sequence Diagram which refers a specific Operation, or Type. However, current (v8.5.1) version does not support t...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to turn off in RSA share icon element on elements/lines of shared pieces between models

When reusing elements between two or more models, the shared element brings in a blue square icon with an arrow on it to show it is a shared element.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration