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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Path variables (e.g. workspace_loc or project_loc) are not resolved in certian input fields.

Under "Main" Tab of Transformation Configurations, an option "Use Default Location" is available. If unchecked, only absolute Paths are valid. Path variables are not being resolved in this filed. Same in the following filed:"Inclusion paths" under...
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 2 Future consideration

RSARTE: Sequence diagram: Move notes together with connected messages

When moving a line in a sequence diagram the note conntected isn't moved and has to be repositioned manually after making changes to the diagram. It would help if the note would move together with the line
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration

Make dragging elements from search results possible

Make it possible to drag elements from search results to class or structure diagram. When using find-named-element, it is realy handy if it would be possible to drag the find elements from the search results to eg a structure or class diagram. Now...
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration

RSARTE: do not redefine member variabels in subclass

Static code checkers like cppcheck give warnings on rsarte generated code for redefining member variables in subclass (like rtg_parent_state andrtg_class). This makes it very difficult to use RSARTE i.c.w. static code checkers.
over 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration

Please change the icon for Rational Developer for i (RDi)

Please change the icon for Rational Developer for i (RDi). The current one is horrible and looks like a fuzzy dark meaningless spot. When this icon was originally changed about 2 years ago I called support thinking there was a problem with my inst...
about 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Allow certificate authentication in Rational Asset Manager

Please allow smart card authentication, aka certificate authentication, into the RAM application. I have been able to successfully accomplish this with both RTC and JTS applications running on WebSphere, but RAM will not allow users into the appli...
about 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Weak Hash Algorithm SHA 1 used (CFF Explorer) Signature Check

RAD 9.6.1 use SHA-1 as the hashing algorithm and SHA-1 is a legacy cryptographic hashing algorithm that is no longer deemed secure. Using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm in digital certificates could allow an attacker to spoof content, perform phishin...
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Support the Workspace path

The Path Variables in the linked Ressources has currently no effect.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

RAD version that supports JDK11 for runtime analysis

since we are evaluting code quality through RAD , Application developed with jdk 11
almost 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

RSARTE: Auto generate getter for type descriptor

We do a lot of checking based o type descriptors Eg D_SomeClass.getTypeDesc().isKindOf(&RTType_D_SomeBaseClass) However the getTypeDesc() is a function we have to create ourself. This is a virtual function that must be overwritten in each subc...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration