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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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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...
over 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...
over 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

UML to Java transformation: Lambda expressions in variable declarations are being converted to null.

Variable declarations with '->' operators are being transformed to null. Example:private final static String Xyz = t -> (test); gets converted to: private final static String Xyz = null;
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

UML to Java Transformation: Update transformation to handle Map field with an implemented array.

The transformation of Map (java class object) field results in the array being converted which leads to compiler errors. Example: private final static Map<Integer, BIT[]> xyz = new HashMap<>(); Post UML-to-Java Transfromation: private ...

Allow comparing unrelated model fragments.

Propose to enhance the compare tool to support comparing unrelated model fragments.Now, when comparing 2 model fragments (even when they inherit from the same parent) you get:Models with different root objects are not supported.Only versions of th...
about 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

MC feature: response file

When running MC with a huge amount of tc we encountered "Command line to long"We're now working around this, but it would be great if MC would accept a response file.(Or through the --options file)
about 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade UML to Java Transformation to handle Enum implementation of a parameterized interface

Enum implementation of a parameterized interface gets wrong super type name

Upgrade UML-to-Java Transformation to prevent Java Classes from generating 'default' methods from implementing Interface

Class generates 'default' methods from implementing Interface

Support for a more recent version of Eclipse

Rational Software Architect Designer (RSAD) should support a more recent version of Eclipse than 4.7.
almost 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

RSA-RTE: Target RTS: Missing common types to be send over protocols

The TargetRTS only supports the CppPrimitiveDatatypes to be send over protocols without type descriptor (like int, long, float). For Modern C++ application it would be required to also support more modern types like uint64_t,std::string etc.
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration