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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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Upgrade of models should give a result

The upgrade process for upgrading all fragments to the newer UML version should give an result. It would be nice if there should be a possibility to find out when the progress is ready with upgrading the UMLModel.

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about 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Enhance RSM/RSA to provide an Interface to Class converter in UML models

When a person models an application using UML, it often happens that an Interface has to be converted to a Class (which may be abstract) and vice-versa. This option would allow the user to right-click on an Interface or a Class and to have an opti...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Not under consideration

Profile tooling should support sequence diagrams

Profile tooling does not support sequence diagram. Our customer would like to create stereotyped messages from the palette directly, and this is currently impossible.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Future consideration

Element ordering within Web publish is not according to project explorer preferences.

Element ordering within a web publish model is not according to the Project Explorer preferences; it always displays it in storage order.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

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

Request for Help Center install to be part of the product install

This request, for the help center install to be part of the product install so that customers who do not have internet access can install the help center. This is an different from having to download the help center from the web through the local ...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to change dependency's relationship type

Ability to change dependency relationships directly from, for example, "Abstraction" to "Binding" without having to delete and redraw is required.
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Addition of a Decision point that has multiple inputs and outputs

In Rational Rose we have models that use a decision point as a combination of a decision node and merge node. We converted our old models over and would like to keep this functionality, whether or not it strictly adheres to the UML 2.1 spec. Right...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 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