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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

Rational Automated Software Quality

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Deliver signed eclipse.exe with Rational test tool packages

Security policies on government provided laptops allow only approved applications to be run elevated. The eclipse.exe delivered and installed as part RPT is unsigned. Every time a new, unsigned version of eclipse.exe is included in a tool upgrade,...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 1 Future consideration

IBM RFT v10.1.2 - Maven plug-in not supported

Hello Team, It will be useful and beneficial for the teams if they like to import Maven-Java projects with Selenium automation scripts already designed and developed. We noticed, IBM-RFT v10.1.2 does not support the Maven plug-in. We tried contact...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Unable to view folders and files created outside WebUI perspective

Team, This problem is found with IBM-RFT v10.1.2 - Web UI Perspective. User-A created folders "Regression_Test" and "Sanity_Test" in the Web UI project. User-A successfully checked into the TFS system. USER-B checks out the latest project from the...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

RIT/DB stub: ORA-00902 Invalid Data Type during table create

RIT doesn't support XMLTYPE Please refer more detail in Case # TS005389658 Here is the steps to recreate the Issue1. Configure Live ORACLE DB2. Configure STUB ORACLE DB3. learn schema from the Live DB4. create Tables using SQL Query5. Created two ...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow folder and script file name changes in IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

We adopted IBM RFT for our functional test use. This tool is based on Eclipse. For regular Eclipse Java related project, it is very easy to make changes on Folder/File name changes. Since during the development, it is very common for the team to a...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Not under consideration

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

Test the assembly code in Rational Test Real Time(RTRT).

Hi, Can we test the assembly code in (Rational Test Real Time)RTRT. If not can you add that feature in later versions. Thank you
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / RealTime 3 Not under consideration

IBM RTCP portal Scheduling tab issue

Grant access to User at RTCP Domain Level. (Domain Administrator / User / API User)2. Schedule a Job on RTCP Server via RIT.3. Logged on RTCP Server, expected to see only the scheduled job by him self, but seeing multiple jobs of other domain alon...
about 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

Using RFT 3270 scripts with Jenkins

We are unable to start RFT playback triggered from a Jenkins server, when Jenkins is running as a Windows service on the Jenkins node. However this works fine when Jenkins node is connected running a JNLP file in a browser or via CLI.
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

RFT dispatch UI events into html5 <CANVAS> objects: example:: Mouse UP event listener is active on <CANVAS> dispatch Mouse UP

Application makes extensive use of <CANVAS>. Multiple WebGL Listeners are enabled on the <CANVAS> hence JavaScript is ready to execute on 2D and 3D WebGL objects. 3D model display manipulation and selection requires a complex Listener ...
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration