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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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Request that CTE preserve filename extension when comparing or merging files

When comparing multiple or arbitrary versions of a file element, ClearCase, and CTE in particular, should preserve the extension of hte file being compared. The current behavior is to append ".contrib.#" to the file name, and this can cause some m...
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Built-in retries for obtaining a license

IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) should implement a built-in retry for acquiring a license, if licenses are already in use.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

If floating licenses are all in use, allow users with Authorized User license to use an available Authorized User license

If all IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) floating licenses are consumed, but an Authorized User (AU) license is still available, then a RAM user with an AU license should be allowed to obtain the AU license directly.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

WADL generation in RSA REST modeling

RSA 8.5 supports modelling RESTful Services. A BIRT report can be created to generate documentation of the REST services in HTML, PDF, Doc and PPT formats. It would be great if RSA/BIRT could also support WADL generation from the designed model fi...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Make IIS Config & IIS AppCmd plugins compatible with each other

We are using IIS Configuration plug in version 10.918427 to auto discover our IIS WebServer properties. We are also using IIS AppCmd 2.423623 for deployments. There are several process steps in the AppCmd plug in that have a default Command Path s...
almost 6 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Buildforge job monitoring tool

I would like to have a job monitoring tool for the buildforge. here is what we are looking for 1. Is anyway to setup a job minostoring tool so that when the job run more than 3 days it will automatically send the email to the owner of the job as w...
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

BPM Plugin Generate Offline Package Step fails if Snapshot exists

BPM plugin step Generate Offline Package only works if the snapshot doesn't exist in process center. We'd like to Generate Offline Package to store existing snapshots in UCD even if the snapshot DOES exist in process center.this is not possible wi...
almost 6 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Request information on stereotype keywords

Request info on all available stereotype keywords (like abstract, frequent, ...) and their meaning.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change high level settings at the same time

Currnet version of Build Forge does not provide ability to change high level settings at the same time.
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6 Request that ClearCase 9.0.1.x do not require 'legacy' files from the OS but use the OS files which exist per default in newer OS versions.
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration