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Search model elements by stereotype

It is currently possible to make model search by metaclass.We would like to have a new criterion : The stereotype.The stereotype list could be filled dynamically with the stereotypes of the opened model profiles.
about 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Option in RSA to support modeling and reverse engineering of Spring & Hibernate applications

Option in RSA to support modeling and reverse engineering of Spring & Hibernate applications
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to specify WSDL transformation options in UML-to-SOA transformation

After specifying a service design using a SoaML Services Model, we attempt to generate Websphere Integration Developer (WID) artifacts using the UML-to-SOA transformation configuration. There are no WSDL options in the UML-to-SOA transformation co...
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

UML->JPA: Support modeling NamedQueries

The JPA transformation doesn't have a way to model the named query in RSA 8. so running JPA to UML will just ignore all the named queries.
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Enable BIRT Web Viewer to access UML data sources

BIRT reports can access the UML models of RSA/RSM thanks to UML Open Data Access (ODA). In the report design perspective of RSA, a report having a UML data source can be previewed in a web viewer (Run > View Report > 0 In Web Viewer). Howeve...
over 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to change dependency's relationship type

Ability to change dependency relationships directly from, for example, "Abstraction" to "Binding" without having to delete and redraw is required.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Model to model tansformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features

The M2M transformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features. For example, maybe it is possible to instrument the implementation of the Move mapping to detect rich text and then convert to plain ...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Planned for future release

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...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

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
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release