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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Please include a single page that documents all the Project Explorer icons, and thier decorations, in the Modeling Perspective.

The UML model is rich, and complicated. We see a number of icons in the Project explorer but can determine what differentiates on type of element, say a Package. I'm guessing that the little triangle decoration on a Package icon indicates Model, a...

Support for C++ 17 "nodiscard" feature

IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime (RSARTE) should include support for the C++ nodiscard feature as described at the following site: C++ attribute: nodiscard (since C++17)

Support for C++17 "inline" specifier

Support for the C++ inline feature should be included in IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime. More details about the inline specificer can be found at the following site: inline specifier

Support for deprecated C++ features

Support for C++ deprecated features should be included in IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime (RSARTE). For details about the deprecated C++ features, refer to the site: C++ attribute: deprecated (since C++14)

Transform from OpenAPI 3.0.0 yaml file to REST Service Model

The Rational Software Architect Designer 9.7.0.3 does not support transformation from OpenAPI 3.0.0 yaml file to REST Service Model. And it also does not transform from REST Service Model to OpenAPI 3.0.0 yam file. However it does both types of tr...

Drag and drop class/capsule names, attributes, methods, enumeration literals etc. into code

Rational Rose Realtime enabled dragging and dropping class/capsule names, attributes, methods, enumeration literals etc. from the Project Explorer into code being written in the code editor. This same capability would be helpful in Rational Softwa...

RAD 9.7x on macOS Big Sur

I have upgraded to macOS Big Sur. And I have Rational Application Developer (RAD) 8.5.5. It does not work on Big Sur. I know it's old version. I can upgrade to RAD 9.7x in couple of months. But RAD 9.7x has not been tested on Big Sur yet. As per R...

Ability to provide Examples for Responses

We would like to be able to provide a JSON payload as an example for a response in a swagger generated schema.

Support for chrono classes in RTServices library

In the C++11 standard the chrono library has been addes for date/time support. Make it possible to call RTServices functions directly with std::chrono classes (in addition to RTTimeSpec)In particular: make it possible to call informIn witha std::c...

Support for oneOf in Swagger definitions

We need support for oneOf construct in Swagger definitions. (This is similar to the XSD choice construct.) This should allow us to annotate the model for oneOf during modeling and Swagger transformation should appropriately generate oneOf in the y...