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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Time calculation

Once the plan or task is paused for certain amount of time, it shouldn't be included in actual duration; actual duration should be "elapsed time" and total duration should be what currently the actual time is.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Release 2 Planned for future release

RFT/RPT adapter for RQM should be able to support shared resources in repositories

When running RFT test scrips from RQM and the RFT test scripts were at a shared location like CCM, the RFT tests would NOT be executed and there was a "projectnotfound" in RFT adapter console. In the user's case, the RFT scripts were shared at CCM...
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

New Feature "Asset Type" to be added to the downloaded report.

If I use the “Activity Audit” then select “Asset downloaded” I get the report attached. However, this report do not include all necessary information. We will need at least to add the “Asset Type” on this report to be functional for our purposes, ...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

Multi-tenancy: Non-admin user can use the Monitoring Portal

A tenant which is only member of the group "Everyone" but has full access ('All') on a Pattern Instance and the VMs should be able to use the Monitoring Portal (Advanced Monitoring).
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Improve the datapool efficiency when using with multiple scripts

Lets assume there are two scripts Script 1 and Script 2. Both of there scripts are using the common data pool. When Script 1(iterate until done) calls Script 2 on first iteration (while the first row is fetched from the data pool) and if Script 2 ...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

RAM incompatibility with Edge and Chrome browsers

RAM is incompatible with MS Edge and Chrome browsers. Java applets cannot be used in them because all the major browsers have discontinued support for plug-ins. Please provide a release to ensure compatibility with major browsers.
over 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Planned for future release

RFT support for MS Word and Excel

Need RFT support in recording MS word and Ms excel operations for Techmahindra customer.
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Upper Case / Lower Case verification

As a user I want to be able to distinguish Upper Case / Lower Case verification. So that I will be able to have a script failure when the text verified is upper case instead of lower case for example.
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Allow verification points of variables

It would be great to allow verification points to be logged with a pass/fail against variables when validating the contents of a variable.
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement request regarding auto-generation of web service client source code by Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer(RAD) v9.x generates java source files for web service client with UTF-8 encode, the customer is using RAD from v8.x, which creates java source codes with the default encode in the platform (SJIS for the customer).The...
over 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Planned for future release