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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Ability to turn off in RSA share icon element on elements/lines of shared pieces between models

When reusing elements between two or more models, the shared element brings in a blue square icon with an arrow on it to show it is a shared element.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Support for Generalization Sets on class diagrams

Support for generalization sets on class diagrams, as defined in the Figure 7.40 of the UML 2.2 Superstructure specifications, should be included in IBM Rational Software Architect.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Inconsistent security in relation to user groups display

Telstra is using RAM7.5.1.1 and there are 40+ user groups in customer's environment. However, on the page [Communities] > [Any Community with user groups] > [Configuration], only 20 user groups are displayed in the list no matter if using an...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

[wi 84143] Prevent Assets from Ever Being Deleted

We would like to be able to prevent assets from being deleted. We want users to always retire assets. This goes for administrators as well. Currently, there is no way to do this in RAM. Also, there is no way to recover a deleted asset in RAM, so u...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Search wizard should have 'Consider derived resources' activated by default.

The default behaviour of the search wizard should be to find ALL occurrences of a file including 'derived' versions. The 'consider derived resources' checkbox could be relegated to a 'twisty' in the wizard which allows various filter criteria to b...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

[wi 83776] Change state of an asset from one state to another in RAM using REST API which RAM doesn't currently supports

Request : We would like you to raise an RFE for the functionality which is not currently supported by RAM using REST API. Problem - We are currently using RAM 7.5.1 and REST API and have set the workflow in RAM server as Submitted->Review->A...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration

Document how to create other server configuration options via Ant task createWSServer

Document how to create other server configuration options via Ant task createWSServer
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram" is not available for behavior classifiers such as Activities and Opaque Behavior. By starting the Browse Diagram from any other kind of classifier that has a relationship to...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to document operations exceptions

Nearly all the elements on a method can be documented: the return value, the parameters and the method itself but there is no way to document the exception(s) of an operation. Currently there is no documentation field that would allow you to direc...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Visual indication that a property has a corresponding association

Currently when viewing the list of properties of a Class, for example, there is no visual way to tell which properties have corresponding associations
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration