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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...
almost 12 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
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Include model elements' from other models properties in a web published model

Currently, after you web publish a particular model that has elements that belong to other models, you will only be able to access the properties of the model elements that belong to the model that is web published and not the properties of the mo...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to open external webpage in a separate web browser window

It should be possible to have the external webpage from a web published model opened in a separate web browser window.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add ability to transform SoaML Models to SCA 1.1

Rational Application Developer 8.5 introduces development support for OASIS SCA (Service Component Architecture) 1.1.This support is missing from the UML to SCA Transform.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to hide folders from the Project Explorer

This is a request to be able to optionally hide all the project subfolders from the Project Explorer.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to search for types inside a given package

The dialog to select types for attributes/operation parameters allows the user to Search for Type names.This request is to introduce the ability to search for all the types contained inside a Package.Additionally, the request is to be able to show...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Publish APIs to allow users to create Property Pages where they can select Model Elements

There is no public API and detailed documentation to help users create a custom property page where the users can select a Model Element (including Diagrams).
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Allow Stereotype properties to be of type Diagram

When creating a custom profile, it is not possible today to associate a stereotype property with a Diagram.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA: Support for Compensation BPM Notation

The BPMN 2.0 Compensation specification is not supported in the BPM modeling feature of RSA. Reference: http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/, Section 10.6 (Compensation).
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration