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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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Segregation of Duties - User Admin role needed

Segregation of Duties: Splitting the user administrator privileges from the system administrator.
over 5 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Rational Functional Tester Reports

Since, IBM RFT supports Integration with Appium (open source) Mobile Automation Platform. With Eclipse Integration one can use it as standalone for Appium as well. But it doesn't support the default report for standalone appium execution which is ...
over 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

Merge Manager should run XML Diff Merge

Merge Manager fails to start XML Diff Merge to resolve conflicts. When the files are TXT, TXT Diff Merge starts for unresolved conflicts but the same does not occur for XML files and XML Diff Merge. XML Diff Merge should run if the conflicts in XM...
over 5 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Priority of tokens are configurable when mixed authentication are enabled

When Liberty is configured to accept both LTPA tokens and JWT tokens, Liberty uses JWT tokens by default. LTPA token is ignored by the server. We would like to open this requirement that allow administrator set which SSO token is used for server a...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Rational Asset Manager - having the related assets section opened automatically

It would be useful to have the Related Assets Section opened automatically without the need to click on the triangle icon next to the relationship. It would be great to have a configuration option to enable/disable the auto-expand the related asse...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 1 Future consideration

Request that CTE preserve filename extension when comparing or merging files

When comparing multiple or arbitrary versions of a file element, ClearCase, and CTE in particular, should preserve the extension of hte file being compared. The current behavior is to append ".contrib.#" to the file name, and this can cause some m...
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Built-in retries for obtaining a license

IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) should implement a built-in retry for acquiring a license, if licenses are already in use.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

If floating licenses are all in use, allow users with Authorized User license to use an available Authorized User license

If all IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) floating licenses are consumed, but an Authorized User (AU) license is still available, then a RAM user with an AU license should be allowed to obtain the AU license directly.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

WADL generation in RSA REST modeling

RSA 8.5 supports modelling RESTful Services. A BIRT report can be created to generate documentation of the REST services in HTML, PDF, Doc and PPT formats. It would be great if RSA/BIRT could also support WADL generation from the designed model fi...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6

ClearCase on SLES15 should use libncurses.so.6 Request that ClearCase 9.0.1.x do not require 'legacy' files from the OS but use the OS files which exist per default in newer OS versions.
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration