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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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Ability to open external webpage in a separate web browser window

It should be possible to have the external webpage from a web published model opened in a separate web browser window.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add ability to transform SoaML Models to SCA 1.1

Rational Application Developer 8.5 introduces development support for OASIS SCA (Service Component Architecture) 1.1.This support is missing from the UML to SCA Transform.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Proper CDI Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service container

To enable proper Interceptor/Decorator support for Web Service bean, and also for the singleton manage beans injected to the Web Service bean. Currently, 1. For Web Service bean, Interceptor does not work. 2. For managed beans injected to the Web ...
almost 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Is a defect

Rose-RT/RSA-RTE Target-RTS: import: make distinction between badClass and notEnoughFreePorts

Currenty the RTS reports the error "Not a compatible subclass." when trying to import a capsule of which the replication factor of one of its ports is full. This is a very misleading error which puts you on the wrong track when you want to solve t...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

Have Selector choose a Server based on box CPU load so jobs don't fail on busy boxes

Add the functionality to have the Console choose whether a job should run on a given Server based on the current CPU load of the box hosting the agent. Right now some built-ins allow getting CPU load info, however, that info is gathered only at th...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 6 Not under consideration

Add an option to the xmi importer to force creation of BaseProfile and UML Primitive Types

When importing an XMI file that represents a profile which does not contain a stereotype that makes use of the possibilities offered by the "ProfileBase" profile, "ProfileBase" isn't added to the list of its applies profiles. Similarly, when impor...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Style of RichText tables should be configurable.

When creating a table in a RichText enabled field of RSA (for instance under the Documentation tab in the properties view), the table comes with a global border, and each single cell is also bordered. This gives the confusing impression that every...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA DAP: Validator for Port Uniqueness

In Deployment Planning, a validator should be available for IP Ports to verify uniqueness across all units configuring ports in the scope of an operating environment. For example, the TCP Listener for MQ must determine an IP port for a given IP Ad...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

RSA DAP: Realization links between conceptual and physical units not checking customized attributes

When you create realization links between conceptual and physical units, the realization link is meant to check that the values defined in the physical unit matches the values defined in the conceptual unit. However, it is only checking the predef...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration

RSA DAP: Unit Installation State update on Realization link resolution

Scenario:1. A conceptual topology representing asset version x is represented in a physical topology as an imported topology2. A physical topology represents all Units being in an Installed state3. The designer imports an updated version of the co...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration