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Add Ant task for importing Policy Sets

In order to attach application-specific bindings for JAX-WS services, it is required to first import policy sets into the workbench (using Import -> WebSphere Policy Sets).
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Planned for future release

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

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

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

RAD and DevOps: ANt Tasks to export partial EAR/WAR/EBA etc.

With RAD or the Build Utility we can export a full EAR/WAR/EBA etc.If we use the RAD Ant tasks as the way to create the artifacts to use in a DevOps scenario with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, it would be useful to be able to build a jar file that contain...
about 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...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

Merge Page Designer and Rich Page Editor into Page Editor

I use Rational Application Developer v9 with the Page Designer and the Rich Page Editor and I especially use the "Code an Action"/Quick Edit button to get a quick snippet of my code. I find it tiring to have to switch between the Page Editor and t...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

EJB Client jar location

When creating EJB client JAR file in RAD 8.5, depending on the steps taken, the location of the jar is either root of the EAR or the EAR lib directory. This becomes confudsing to the developers. This is also affecting our common build script we ar...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Report variable name from Symbol Table in Purify Report

Comment to Customizing Purify intrumentation and reporting by Madhu (986729997 asked if a purify report for MLK be:MLK: 340 bytes leaked at 0x932423, the variable: loginInstead of:MLK: 340 bytes leaked at 0x932423It is assumed that Purify has acce...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

Search wizard should have 'Consider derived resources' activated by default.

The default behaviour of the search wizard should be to find ALL occurrences of a file including 'derived' versions. The 'consider derived resources' checkbox could be relegated to a 'twisty' in the wizard which allows various filter criteria to b...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration