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P2 install option for IDEs

Should offer both IM and p2 install options like RTC does. IBM comments: a) this RFE pertains to all IDEs (RDz, RDi, ...), not just to RAD b) some things to consider as the community evaluates this RFE, or suggests variants of it: if we offered th...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

perspective switcher positions

Perspective switcher no longer on seperate bar with left right location option.In version 9 it can only be dragged to the start of the main bar where it is already crowded with other icons of different size.It is a function which is most frequentl...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Use Kerberos in RDI

when we open 5250 to connect the kerberos identification is not applicable. It's the same problem when we want use connect to dba
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

extract data from Data Elements View to file layout.

when I am editing a Cobol program I right click and select sub select Data Elements for the data element view. I should be able to export this data to an xcel file layout or at least to an external file that can be input into ecel.
about 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

Web Servive generation tool doesn't pass the enitre Java build path to WAS and thus failed to generate

The web service generation tool doesn't send everything in the Java build path to WAS when generating the web service. While this should be considered as a bug, you team consider this as GOOD FEATURE and doesn't want to address it as a APAR. THIS ...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

RAD insert an empty jaxb.index file in every package that does not contain any JAXB classes

Normally RAD insert in every package containing jaxb code, a Objectfactory.class containing the list of services. The customer ask that RAD insert an empty jaxb.index file in every package that does not contain any JAXB classes. The reference is a...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

Change CreateWSRuntime to accept an SDK ID instead of a Java version

The CreateWSRuntime task supports an attribute, "javaVersion", which can contain either the value "6.0" or "7.0" for WAS 8.5. However, recently, IBM released JDK 1.7.1. There is no way, using CreateWSRuntime, to add a WAs 8.5 runtime that uses JDK...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

TCP Monitor default to XML view

Request that the TCP/IP monitor allow you to select a default view to like XML instead of the current "Byte". Even better, to choose the view based on the content type, but I'd settle for it just letting me set a global default. I'm watching SOAP ...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

Enhance New Web Project wizards to allow folder location outside of workspace

Our team uses RAD for Java/WebSphere application development. In RAD 8.5 and 9.0, we need to use the New Web Project wizard to create web application projects. This wizard lacks the ability to select a project location. We store projects outside o...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Ability to generate Java classes from a WADL

WADL is a standard used to describe RESTful services.Typically, when interacting with a RESTful service, the client application needs to parse the emitted JSON or XML and reconstruct some Java objects to represent that data.The information require...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration