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Customize Design Explorer with "Profile Tooling project"

My company has tried the "Profile tooling project" wizard to customize Project Explorer Menu and Diagram palettes and Icons. It seems enough to developp our application based on this principle.We only want to use the same principle (plugin profile...
about 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Not under consideration

RSA DM: Import of an archived profile project needs to be clarified

With regard to the RSA Design Manager product. In Domains > Profile Import, it says:"Alternatively it could be an archive file containing profile project(s)" The sentence needs to be clarified in the Help contents what pre-requisites are requir...
over 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

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
over 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

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

Framework to extend the TADDM importer in RSA

The framework to extend the TADDM importer in RSA so that user can define their custom mapping and import the data from TADDM's CCMDB into RSA.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

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