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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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RSA Navigate to Diagram Enhancement for Sequence Diagrams

Navigate to Diagram (from selected model element) should be enhanced to Sequence Diagram elements. It is very popular to want to find Sequence Diagram which refers a specific Operation, or Type. However, current (v8.5.1) version does not support t...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

External Editor Code Sync

What we did with RoseRT was generate the RoseRT component, use an external editor (like Visual SlickEdit or UltraEdit) to modify code between //USR blocks as desired, taking advantage of the vastly faster and more powerful editing facilities of th...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

[wi 86503] Addition of an API method and of an ant task to add an artifiact to a project in the RAM Eclipse Client

Currently, if you want to automatically add specific artifacts to a project in the RAM Eclipse Client, you are left with no other choices than the one of creating yourself a rambuildercontrol.xml file and adding the proper nature and builder to yo...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

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...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Form Field navigation

Two issues here:1) ctrl left/right only jumps on whitespace. Should be able to navigate on language tokens (e.g. '::' or '.' or changes in capitalization). 2) Double-click should have rotating toggle. # all of field not word/capitalization separat...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 7 Not under consideration

Helper to sort

Generally having some visible organization within a context is considered a maintainability enhancer. E.g. there is a standard GNAT warning about non-alphabetical units in a scope. Theory is the IDE outline of the file should be easy to use (aplha...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 9 Not under consideration

RSART Hang when moving attributes/operations in class diagrams

Class diagrams allow the user to move attributes & operations from one class to another. If this is done (e.g. to promote an operation from a class to its parent class), the tool hangs. The Move Element dialog box is displayed and reports "Per...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

RSART- build project with multiple active transforms enables

Does code sync on multiple unrelated projects in workspace before compiling the single project you told it to build. Turn on view 'Progress View' and you can see the names of the unrelated classes that are being code synced. Suspect that if you ha...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration