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Support for a more recent version of Eclipse

Rational Software Architect Designer (RSAD) should support a more recent version of Eclipse than 4.7.
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

Please add ruler capability for sketches.

While viewing a .sketch file in the sketch editor w/in RSAD, the option to display rulers is visible but not active. No rulers can be displayed in the editor pane. This feature would allow users to identifiy where they are in the sketch and would ...

RSA support for Java 11

we currently use the RSA in version 9.7.1 on Windows. Unfortunately, this does not allow development with Java 11, at most Java 9. When does IBM plan to offer an RSA version with Java 11 support?
over 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

Convert .dnx sequence diagram to model

Is should be possible to convert .dnx diagrams, sequence diagrams specifically, to a UML model diagram.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Design Room ONE should support multiple databases

Design Room ONE should support multiple databases, and not only MongoDB.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Request to include the ability to visualize C# code to sequence diagrams.

We want to visualize the sequence diagrams for the C# code in RSAD 9.6 but we are unable to do that. We are requesting you to include the ability to visualize C# code to sequence diagrams in fixpack as soon as possible.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 3 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...
about 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

RSA support for Mac OS X 10.14

Need an RSA (version >= 9.7.0.2) that installs and works out of the box on OS X 10.14 (and OS X 10.15). RSA 9.7.0.x doesn't.
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration