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Request for a virtual folder for links in the Project explorer

Associations are grouped in a virtual folder "Associations" in each package. However, Links (Instance Specification of the Association) are not. When working with a large number of object / links, it can easily overload and pollute the view. It wo...
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Feature enhancements in UML to LDM transformation

The following two is regarding UML to LDM transformation feature. a) Right now we cannot specify data type transformation rule. For example, an attribute with property String in UML model need to be transformed to attribute with data type varchar(...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

Include documentation added to UML model method arguments and return types in Operation Details section of web publish

Documentation added to UML model method arguments and return types under Properties > Documentation should be added to the Operation Details section of web publish, which lists details of operations in the class concerned. At present this docum...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

RFE: Easier way to browse type of instance specification from the PE

Currently the quickest way to browse to the type of an instance from the PE (not from the diagram) is: 1. Right-click instance in PE 2. UML Properties..: 'Classifier' is opened by default. 3. Right-click on the class in the right pane > Select ...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

Ability to not copy referenced model that have no references back the model used as template.

This is a request to get additional functionality to provide an option to not duplicate the referenced models that have no references back into the template model using the following scenario scenario
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

RSA: enable the ability to reverse a dependency (or any relationship)

The client would like the ability to reverse a dependency relationship (or any relationship).
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 5 Planned for future release

To be able to export/import diagram information using xmi/xmldi

The customer wants to be able to import and export diagram information using XMI[DI]. At the moment this is not supported only XMI.
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to use path map variable or classpath of the project with the Java visualization.

UML models (*.emx-files) and class diagrams (*.dnx-files) should be independent from the project in which they were created.Using Path map variable or the classpath of the current project to resolve Java types could help to achieve this.
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Morph UML elements to other types

Ability to morph one type of UML element into another one is required.
about 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to do headless batch publish

Rational Rose Web Publisher has a command line interface that enables you to publish models using a batch processor. (An attached document contains more details on this.) A set of similar functionality should be supported by the SDP-based products...
over 19 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration