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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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Profile tooling should support sequence diagrams

Profile tooling does not support sequence diagram. Our customer would like to create stereotyped messages from the palette directly, and this is currently impossible.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Future consideration

Request for a virtual folder for links in the Project explorer

Associations are grouped in a virtual folder "Associations" in each package. However, Links (Instance Specification of the Association) are not. When working with a large number of object / links, it can easily overload and pollute the view. It wo...
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

xsd validation for soap requests/responses

We are developing client applications for web services and we would like to do xsd validation on the soap messages (requests and responses) when executing our clients on the WebSphere Test Environment 6.1 (+ Web Services Feature Pack 6.1.0.13) emb...
about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Enhance RSM/RSA to provide an Interface to Class converter in UML models

When a person models an application using UML, it often happens that an Interface has to be converted to a Class (which may be abstract) and vice-versa. This option would allow the user to right-click on an Interface or a Class and to have an opti...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under consideration

Feature enhancements in UML to LDM transformation

The following two is regarding UML to LDM transformation feature. a) Right now we cannot specify data type transformation rule. For example, an attribute with property String in UML model need to be transformed to attribute with data type varchar(...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

RTWW - Copying script from one test to another do not copy the application

In the example I am trying to move the second part of the script as a separate script with an intention to make it as modular scripts.1. I create a new script of type “ New test”2. I cut the module with comments and the application name . paste it...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration

AWS AUTHENTICATION support in IBM Rational Performance Tester

The Current SOA extension in RPT does not support AWS authentication.
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 1 Future consideration

Please implement URL encryption feature powered by Wicket Crypt

In Apache project, there is a package called "org.apache.wicket.util.crypt" which can encrypt/decrypt URL in the HTTP communication between HTTP client and server. URLs might be encrypted dynamically by using session as a seed. To handling this fe...
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration

Target BF 8.0.0.3: A way to decrypt all the assign hidden in the agent, for easier the upgrading / project usage from V7.x

Mirror from the following ROCR work item, as requested by Eric / Qian Yang: https://jazz.net/jazz09/web/projects/Rational%20Build%20Forge#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=31422 Content: https://l2l3-cmn-rtc.ratl.swg.usma.ibm.com:94...
about 10 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Provide an Example for an Attribute Modification Notification in Dev Process

We are trying to upgrade from V5.2 to V5.3 of Change. An update was done to the transition_notice.pl script by IBM for that upgrade. So, none of our out of the box notification templates were working any longer. It took me several hours to figure ...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration