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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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RFE for functionality to generate MTOM compliant XSD and for generating multipart attachemtn SOAP requests in RSA

So what we need is a way to model a base64Binary type in Modeling mode(starting from scratch) that is also enhanced via the xmlns:xmime="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" namespace.
almost 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Bangalore 2010 Innovate : Reverse engineering should compartmentalize the diagrams

When topic diagrams get created after reverse engineerign they are too huge to analyze the visualization.We should have a facility to compartmentalize and create variuos diagrams at lower level of abstraction during reverse engineering.
about 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 3 Planned for future release

Enable BIRT Web Viewer to access UML data sources

BIRT reports can access the UML models of RSA/RSM thanks to UML Open Data Access (ODA). In the report design perspective of RSA, a report having a UML data source can be previewed in a web viewer (Run > View Report > 0 In Web Viewer). Howeve...
over 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Request for Help Center install to be part of the product install

This request, for the help center install to be part of the product install so that customers who do not have internet access can install the help center. This is an different from having to download the help center from the web through the local ...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to change dependency's relationship type

Ability to change dependency relationships directly from, for example, "Abstraction" to "Binding" without having to delete and redraw is required.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Ability to run webpublisher from command line to schedule the generation at night

Tis is a request to have the ability to schedule the web publishing of model files.It is currently possible to run the web publishing from a command line ant script using for example:---@echo onsetlocalset BASE_DIR=%~dp0 REM *********** Local enva...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Model to model tansformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features

The M2M transformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features. For example, maybe it is possible to instrument the implementation of the Move mapping to detect rich text and then convert to plain ...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Planned for future release

Request for a virtual folder for links in the Project explorer

Associations are grouped in a virtual folder "Associations" in each package. However, Links (Instance Specification of the Association) are not. When working with a large number of object / links, it can easily overload and pollute the view. It wo...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

RFE: Easier way to browse type of instance specification from the PE

Currently the quickest way to browse to the type of an instance from the PE (not from the diagram) is: 1. Right-click instance in PE 2. UML Properties..: 'Classifier' is opened by default. 3. Right-click on the class in the right pane > Select ...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

RFE to have same Quick fix options in Sqlj and Java editors

Quick Fix is different for SQLJ file than for Java file.Java Quick fix gives more options.
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release