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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Enhance New Web Project wizards to allow folder location outside of workspace

Our team uses RAD for Java/WebSphere application development. In RAD 8.5 and 9.0, we need to use the New Web Project wizard to create web application projects. This wizard lacks the ability to select a project location. We store projects outside o...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

[wi 101958]Rational Asset Manager must be able to Distinguish Versions Properly

RAM considers assets with versions of "1" and "1.0" to be different.This is wrong and should be corrected.
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Codegeneration: Generate a forward declaration for a shared aggregation (in stead of inclusion)

- In Rose-RT a shared aggregation would generate a forward declaration: You don't have to know the contents, only the name of the class. In CP2 an inclusion is generated instead: D_FooBar.h: #include . That can lead to dependency creep.
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

[wi 97955]User should presented with a list of available schemas on defining a custom Role

RAM working with category schemas. If you to a community and try to define a custom role that uses acategory schema setting to limit access, RAM tries to load all of thevalues for all existing category schemas into one large flat file toput into a...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

[wi 97957]Rational Asset Manager API to Delete Subcategories in Schemas

Currently there is no way that we can Delete Subcategories in Schemas using RAM API's. There must a way to achieve the same.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

Ability to generate Java classes from a WADL

WADL is a standard used to describe RESTful services.Typically, when interacting with a RESTful service, the client application needs to parse the emitted JSON or XML and reconstruct some Java objects to represent that data.The information require...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

[wi 93505]RAM should advice that no record found instead of show nothing in Add Reviewer dialog box

When user try to add reviewers that are valid it finds and lists them but if the search name is incorrect then it just sits there and does not advise that the search found nothing matching the criteria. RAM should show warning messages that no rec...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

[wi 66075]Options to to help user to add asset artifact label

Client has asset restriction that some asset must have specific label to attached artifact. But adding label option is available in advanced upload only. There are two possible enhancements:1) To add information that to add artifact label user nee...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

RDM Linking should remember previous selections

RDM Linking requires many selections to be made:1. Link Type2. Project area3. Create/Select artifact4. Search kind5. Type of elementetc, depending on the type of search
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

RSART TC Top Level Class

As discussed with Mattias, we have many TCs that have no capsules. We do however always create a top level class that we use to pull in all dependencies for that TC, similar in function to a top level class. Consider allowing an optional top level...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration