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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Redefine operation doesn't put in a Task Marker

When you redefine an operation (e.g. from an ABT) you get an empty method. It should have inserted a marker (e.g. // TODO - empty method) the way standard eclipse java does when you insert/create a method
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

File name defaults for Fragments

Problem description * Defaults for fragmenting the model are not smart, and may hang the tool when cleaning up model. ** Would be nice if when creating a fragment, the file name defaulted to the name of the Class/Package that the operation is bein...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

direction flags not used for C++

Problem description # use them (in maps to const &) etc # warn when inconsistant with type decoration (const & not compatible with in/out)
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 7 Not under consideration

RSA arrange connectors

In data architect there is an arrange connectors feature: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idm/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.datatools.diagram.core.doc/topics/tarrgselect.html Would like this available with Rational Software Architect. The...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 3 Not under 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

Ability to open external webpage in a separate web browser window

It should be possible to have the external webpage from a web published model opened in a separate web browser window.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add ability to transform SoaML Models to SCA 1.1

Rational Application Developer 8.5 introduces development support for OASIS SCA (Service Component Architecture) 1.1.This support is missing from the UML to SCA Transform.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Rose-RT/RSA-RTE Target-RTS: import: make distinction between badClass and notEnoughFreePorts

Currenty the RTS reports the error "Not a compatible subclass." when trying to import a capsule of which the replication factor of one of its ports is full. This is a very misleading error which puts you on the wrong track when you want to solve t...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 4 Not under consideration

Add an option to the xmi importer to force creation of BaseProfile and UML Primitive Types

When importing an XMI file that represents a profile which does not contain a stereotype that makes use of the possibilities offered by the "ProfileBase" profile, "ProfileBase" isn't added to the list of its applies profiles. Similarly, when impor...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Style of RichText tables should be configurable.

When creating a table in a RichText enabled field of RSA (for instance under the Documentation tab in the properties view), the table comes with a global border, and each single cell is also bordered. This gives the confusing impression that every...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration