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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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Remains of MTOM uploads should be removed from file system when uploads gets cancelled

We tried to use WebServices and MTOM to transport really big files (10GB, CAD data). Since uploading these files takes some time, always a certain percentage of clients will cancel the upload. WebSphereAS buffers all these files temporarily in the...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Documentation regarding to notification mail trigger script

There seems no information exist regarding to notification mail trigger script in Rational Change. It is too hard to figure out how to customize the format of mail, conditions, and so on. User need to look into perl scripts and deep into the folde...
over 10 years ago in Heritage 4 Not under consideration

check in asset

checks out and checks in assets
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

the customer needs the Oracle Internet Directory configuration (RAM_con) to prevent unavailable issues

The customer needs the Oracle Internet Directory configuration (RAM_con) to prevent unavailable issues.
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Please add feature to rotate buildforge log

Build forge log file is created under BF_HOME directory once BF engine is started. This log file grow to unlimited (over 6GB in 40 days in my case). Restart of the server will remove this file and created again. The problem with this is - Hard to ...
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

IBM Rational Synergy for 64-bit Eclipse Integration

We have been told that in regards to upcoming Eclipse release support, IBM has current support only for 32 bit mode. However, the requirement that we were given by our internal customer is to have Synergy be the repository for 64-bit eclipse, as t...
over 10 years ago in Heritage 5 Not under consideration

Request for secure SMTP in RAM

Following working with Emanuel Stanciu (RAM ocnsultant from IBM) to set up email notifications from our RAM instance, we discovered that RAM is not compatible with secure SMTP (unlike the other Rational tools we have.) As such there are no fields ...
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

RSA-RTE: Diagram editing Reuse Editor also when entering state via double click

The preference 'UML Development - Real Time - Diagrams - 'Reuse editor when performing Go Inside/Outside' should also be used when entering a substate via double click, because this is the most common method engineers use to enter a substate.
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

RIC2015: Improved UCDP/UCD interactions

Improved governance flows with UrbanCode Deploy:1. Ability to tie a snapshot with an environment definition2. Ability to leverage the quality gates concept in UCD with the environment definitions
over 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

JAX-WS opens too many SSL connections

In our application we have a client in Liberty that makes JAX-WS soap calls to a backend server, also in Liberty. We've found that when we use ssl to make the JAX-WS calls, we can easily cause the server to open over 1024 sockets simultaneously, w...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration