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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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RFE for functionality to generate MTOM compliant XSD and for generating multipart attachemtn SOAP requests in RSA

So what we need is a way to model a base64Binary type in Modeling mode(starting from scratch) that is also enhanced via the xmlns:xmime="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" namespace.
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

IBM Installation Manager should install a software using relative path

The problem is with the Installation Manager. When we install a product, the installation manager use the full path during the installation to point to some of the directories/files. This cause us a major issue since we install the application an ...
over 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

Tracebility between manual test scripts RQM and automated scrits tests in RFT

More details in PMR 34258,999,631 - RFT - test cases x automatic scriptTraceability and change control - Some automated scripts in RFT can be made based on the manual scripts of RQM. It would be interesting to have the manual control if the script...
almost 14 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 5 Not under consideration

Upgrade of models should give a result

The upgrade process for upgrading all fragments to the newer UML version should give an result. It would be nice if there should be a possibility to find out when the progress is ready with upgrading the UMLModel.

Search and Replace in EGL

A string function to search and replace substring.
over 14 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

N-ary associations, connectors and links

We would like to be able to draw N-ary (i.e. with more than two ends) associations, association classes, connectors and links as described in the paragraphs 7.3.3, 7.3.4 and 8.3.2 of the UML 2.1.2 Superstructure, dated 07-11-02, and visualized in ...
about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 7 Not under consideration

Ability to run webpublisher from command line to schedule the generation at night

Tis is a request to have the ability to schedule the web publishing of model files.It is currently possible to run the web publishing from a command line ant script using for example:---@echo onsetlocalset BASE_DIR=%~dp0 REM *********** Local enva...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

RSA: enable the ability to reverse a dependency (or any relationship)

The client would like the ability to reverse a dependency relationship (or any relationship).
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 5 Planned for future release

To be able to export/import diagram information using xmi/xmldi

The customer wants to be able to import and export diagram information using XMI[DI]. At the moment this is not supported only XMI.
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to do headless batch publish

Rational Rose Web Publisher has a command line interface that enables you to publish models using a batch processor. (An attached document contains more details on this.) A set of similar functionality should be supported by the SDP-based products...
almost 19 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration