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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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RSART- can't multiselect, run uml->c++ transform in Project Explorer

multi-select action is very common paradigm for Eclipse, e.g. build/clean/open/close. think the transform s/be here to. currently seems to only run one/first of selected .tcs (from Model/transformations) when you right click run uml->C++ transf...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram" is not available for behavior classifiers such as Activities and Opaque Behavior. By starting the Browse Diagram from any other kind of classifier that has a relationship to...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to document operations exceptions

Nearly all the elements on a method can be documented: the return value, the parameters and the method itself but there is no way to document the exception(s) of an operation. Currently there is no documentation field that would allow you to direc...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSART- Code generation Style

Mostly need to add line feeds in spots to keep total line length readable, and make line based file comparisons easier, and for readability for review add line feed after each inheritance, C++ and IDL bad foo : public virtual A, public virtual B, ...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

RSART- This action will violate model integrity

Usually happens on cut and paste of the name of a model element when whitespace is involved. you are NOT presented opportunity to fix the text, only to loose the paste entirely. suggest automatically trim any leading/trailing whitespace on paste i...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

RSART- IDL should have default visibility public for attributes and aggregations into classes (CORBAStruct))

IDL should have default visibility public for attributes and aggregations into classes (CORBAStruct)), as private is not meaningful.
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

Text Editor Color Schemes

This issue was entered earlier, but I mistakenly omitted the word "text" in front of "editor". The following comment is quoted from the "Resolved Issues" section below, since IBM's response was directed toward graphical editing, not text editing (...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 7 Not under consideration

Bookmarks for Source Controlled Items in Project Explorer

It would be helpful to have Project Explorer bookmarks work properly for model elements that are under source control. Although bookmarks for items not under source control seem to work (in that they cause Project Explorer to expand down to the bo...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 2 Not under consideration

Redefine operation doesn't put in a Task Marker

When you redefine an operation (e.g. from an ABT) you get an empty method. It should have inserted a marker (e.g. // TODO - empty method) the way standard eclipse java does when you insert/create a method
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

File name defaults for Fragments

Problem description * Defaults for fragmenting the model are not smart, and may hang the tool when cleaning up model. ** Would be nice if when creating a fragment, the file name defaulted to the name of the Class/Package that the operation is bein...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration