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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
about 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

WADL generation in RSA REST modeling

RSA 8.5 supports modelling RESTful Services. A BIRT report can be created to generate documentation of the REST services in HTML, PDF, Doc and PPT formats. It would be great if RSA/BIRT could also support WADL generation from the designed model fi...
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

Support for Generalization Sets on class diagrams

Support for generalization sets on class diagrams, as defined in the Figure 7.40 of the UML 2.2 Superstructure specifications, should be included in IBM Rational Software Architect.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram" is not available for behavior classifiers such as Activities and Opaque Behavior. By starting the Browse Diagram from any other kind of classifier that has a relationship to...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to document operations exceptions

Nearly all the elements on a method can be documented: the return value, the parameters and the method itself but there is no way to document the exception(s) of an operation. Currently there is no documentation field that would allow you to direc...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Visual indication that a property has a corresponding association

Currently when viewing the list of properties of a Class, for example, there is no visual way to tell which properties have corresponding associations
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration