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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Save Editor State for Model Element Related Editor

Starting a developer workspace doesn't re-open the editors of model elements that were open at closing time. To find and re-open the needed editors is quite time consuming. We request that optionally (preference) the model should be loaded such th...
about 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

RFE RSARTE Inheritance of state chart of passive class

When create a passive class and define a state machine associated with it, the state machine is not inherited even create a subclass of the passive class. On the other hand, in case of capsule, a state chart is inherited. Customer requests for enh...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

Support UML 2.4 in RSARTE/RSA/RSA4WS

Hi, we request to support UML 2.4 in order to optionally create no eventes for EventOccurrenceSpecifications. These events are superflous, contain no valueable information and increase merge complexity for parallel development. Best regards,Jan
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

Allow Paste Locations in Sequence Diagrams

When pasting model elements in a UML sequence diagram the elements are pasted to the end of the diagram. The user must then reorder the elements to get the desired model. We request that the pasted model elements are pasted at the cursor location....
about 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

Ability to view the information in the marking model in a separate view

Today we can see the information in the marking model only through the original model and clicking on the each element. This is very hard to review what markings have been applied.
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

UML Interaction Constraint doesn't display multiline expressions

Hi, in UML Sequence Diagram we used certain UML fragments that contain interaction constraints (hope that's the correct name), e.g. conditions for loop or alt fragments. Sometimes the condition expression is more complicated and may have more than...
almost 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

Enhance RSM/RSA to provide an Interface to Class converter in UML models

When a person models an application using UML, it often happens that an Interface has to be converted to a Class (which may be abstract) and vice-versa. This option would allow the user to right-click on an Interface or a Class and to have an opti...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under consideration