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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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Default value for "Detect membership conflicts"

Introduce a key in $CCM_HOME/etc/ccm.properties, that permits to set a default value for "Detect membership conflicts after updating projects".E. g.:detect.membership.conflicts = true
almost 12 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 4 Not under consideration

Convert .dnx sequence diagram to model

Is should be possible to convert .dnx diagrams, sequence diagrams specifically, to a UML model diagram.
almost 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

Rich Hover customizable functionality

While using the Rich hover over feature, you only see attributes from out of the box. For example, the only attributes that currently show are version, state, community, type, summary, owners, and related assets. There is no way to add or take awa...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

warning about stopping the server when restarting the server

need to implement warning about stopping the server when restarting the server in websphere application server web interface in node agent and application server sections
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

transient folder in wlp

Liberty supports password encryption. IBM advice is to load the encryption key via a bootstrap.properties file include that loads the key from a file system outside the wlp directory path. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSD28V_9.0.0/c...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

RTVS enhancement to allow Pass-Through AND Record simultaneously

Currently RTVS allows virtualized services to run in one of three modes: (1) Pass-Through, (2) Record, (3) Simulate Error. In able to simplify the creation of recorded data, allow end user maintenance of data and provide the a seamless means of dy...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

Create multiple Code Review custom rules U99.x

Since there is only one custom rule U99.1 for Code Review, the severity of the reported custom checks are either always "warning" or always "error". We would like to be able to have multiple custom rules and thus to have specific severities for ea...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / RealTime 2 Functionality already exists

Request to set the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity.

Our company has a production Business Process Management deployment which experiences intermittent outages due to the fact that we are unable to reset the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity. T...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

RFT support for MS Word and Excel

Need RFT support in recording MS word and Ms excel operations for Techmahindra customer.
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Allow RAM repository admin to configure public/private access

A user can access certain pages such as home.faces and the list of communities in RAM without logging in. Since RAM contains intellectual property, it is important that the user not see any information before logging in. All the repository admin t...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 1 Future consideration