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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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Improve reporting when a failure happens inside a method being called by another script

Lets assume there are two scripts Script 1 and Script 2. Script 1 is calling a method in Script 2 where a failure happens on line number "x" in the method. When report is generated, the line number at which the failure happened is being shown as t...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Not under consideration

Support for setting CPU ratio to values below 8:1 in empty Logical Workload Environments

With Logical Workload Environments, clients can deploy multiple Workload Environments within a single Virtual Manager Cloud Group. A LWE is a partition of a VMCG space for PureApplication Software creation and management of workloads within that V...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

all owners not receiving email notifications for asset access requests

currently, only lifecycle mgrs receive email notifications for asset access requests. per issue #3788, this can be solved if a community admin enables a feature to include asset owners as lifecycle mgrs. however, the feature will be enabled for AL...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 7 Future consideration

Recommend a HA configuration

Any enterprise deployment of a solution that includes RAM will require high availabity . There is no installation instructions nor documented way to set up RAM in an HA configuration. There is a tech note (https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.w...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 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

Element ordering within Web publish is not according to project explorer preferences.

Element ordering within a web publish model is not according to the Project Explorer preferences; it always displays it in storage order.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA-RTE: sub-state symbol: only show #-# when there are local modifications relative to any inherited state.

When creating a nested state machine in an inherited state, the state symbol changes from O-O to #-# (the filled circles instead of the open ones). In RoseRT this means that the nested state contains modifications relative to the inherited state. ...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

Liberty Server Maven suport: There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory

There is no goal to clean a deployment from the dropins directory If one of more applications is installed with liberty:install-apps, there is no goal to uninstall these
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Addition of a Decision point that has multiple inputs and outputs

In Rational Rose we have models that use a decision point as a combination of a decision node and merge node. We converted our old models over and would like to keep this functionality, whether or not it strictly adheres to the UML 2.1 spec. Right...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under 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