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Support the Workspace path

The Path Variables in the linked Ressources has currently no effect.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Data structure constant dimension used with SQL statements

Allow constants to be used for dimension size on data structures that are used in SQL queries. It currently works fine if it's not used with SQL statements.
almost 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

plugins

It would be good if RAD has in-built or plugin for CSS minifier and JS Minifier
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

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

Enhancement request regarding auto-generation of web service client source code by Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer(RAD) v9.x generates java source files for web service client with UTF-8 encode, the customer is using RAD from v8.x, which creates java source codes with the default encode in the platform (SJIS for the customer).The...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Planned for future release

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...
almost 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

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