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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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N-ary associations, connectors and links

We would like to be able to draw N-ary (i.e. with more than two ends) associations, association classes, connectors and links as described in the paragraphs 7.3.3, 7.3.4 and 8.3.2 of the UML 2.1.2 Superstructure, dated 07-11-02, and visualized in ...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 7 Not under consideration

Ability to run webpublisher from command line to schedule the generation at night

Tis is a request to have the ability to schedule the web publishing of model files.It is currently possible to run the web publishing from a command line ant script using for example:---@echo onsetlocalset BASE_DIR=%~dp0 REM *********** Local enva...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

RSA: enable the ability to reverse a dependency (or any relationship)

The client would like the ability to reverse a dependency relationship (or any relationship).
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 5 Planned for future release

To be able to export/import diagram information using xmi/xmldi

The customer wants to be able to import and export diagram information using XMI[DI]. At the moment this is not supported only XMI.
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to do headless batch publish

Rational Rose Web Publisher has a command line interface that enables you to publish models using a batch processor. (An attached document contains more details on this.) A set of similar functionality should be supported by the SDP-based products...
over 19 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Only update the variables if the view is also set to Variables

Recently, an enhancement request to view snapshots of variable values when an application is running was implemented in IBM Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition (RSARTE). However, if you click with the right mouse button on a capsule, the...
over 2 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 0 Future consideration

RAD and DevOps: ANt Tasks to export partial EAR/WAR/EBA etc.

With RAD or the Build Utility we can export a full EAR/WAR/EBA etc.If we use the RAD Ant tasks as the way to create the artifacts to use in a DevOps scenario with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, it would be useful to be able to build a jar file that contain...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Merge Page Designer and Rich Page Editor into Page Editor

I use Rational Application Developer v9 with the Page Designer and the Rich Page Editor and I especially use the "Code an Action"/Quick Edit button to get a quick snippet of my code. I find it tiring to have to switch between the Page Editor and t...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Access WAS Application OSGi Console from RAD

RAD should help developers to test their applications on WebSphere Application Server. For that, it is possible to create profiles without using the PMT directly from the command line (e.g.).So for OSGi application developers, it should be possibl...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

Reduce CPU overhead of WAS profiling

Try to reduce high server CPU overhead during profiling sessions by providing additional configuration options for profiling session to reduce amount of profiling tracing data such as only profile public java methods. Often this is enough to find ...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration