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Rational Analysis, Design & Construction

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RSM/RSA should not take a license as soon as Eclipse starts

Skatteverket suggests that the RSA tool extends with two new features/functions to meet our needs. 1- We suggest adding an on/off button where the user can decide when he/she needs to use the modelling tool (i.e. requesting a licence from the serv...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Not under consideration

Model to model tansformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features

The M2M transformation framework should provide mechanisms for getting plain text from rich text valued features. For example, maybe it is possible to instrument the implementation of the Move mapping to detect rich text and then convert to plain ...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Planned for future release

Request for a virtual folder for links in the Project explorer

Associations are grouped in a virtual folder "Associations" in each package. However, Links (Instance Specification of the Association) are not. When working with a large number of object / links, it can easily overload and pollute the view. It wo...
almost 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Feature enhancements in UML to LDM transformation

The following two is regarding UML to LDM transformation feature. a) Right now we cannot specify data type transformation rule. For example, an attribute with property String in UML model need to be transformed to attribute with data type varchar(...
about 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

Include documentation added to UML model method arguments and return types in Operation Details section of web publish

Documentation added to UML model method arguments and return types under Properties > Documentation should be added to the Operation Details section of web publish, which lists details of operations in the class concerned. At present this docum...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

RFE: Easier way to browse type of instance specification from the PE

Currently the quickest way to browse to the type of an instance from the PE (not from the diagram) is: 1. Right-click instance in PE 2. UML Properties..: 'Classifier' is opened by default. 3. Right-click on the class in the right pane > Select ...
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

RFE to have same Quick fix options in Sqlj and Java editors

Quick Fix is different for SQLJ file than for Java file.Java Quick fix gives more options.
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Planned for future release

Ability to not copy referenced model that have no references back the model used as template.

This is a request to get additional functionality to provide an option to not duplicate the referenced models that have no references back into the template model using the following scenario scenario
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 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.
over 16 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration