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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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Missing permission for persons or groups

When we want to set up permissions of a person or group who using an asset, we can not choose any permission to allow anybody to edit an asset. Please see the attached screen shot.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Improve performance loading of the assets modified many times

This enhancement is to improve the performance of the loading of assets linked to lifecycle with several policies which have been modified many time.
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Web Servive generation tool doesn't pass the enitre Java build path to WAS and thus failed to generate

The web service generation tool doesn't send everything in the Java build path to WAS when generating the web service. While this should be considered as a bug, you team consider this as GOOD FEATURE and doesn't want to address it as a APAR. THIS ...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

Change to cursor handling in editor box when pressing enter.

Current design In the description editor box when you press return to a line you have edited. If there is more text in the page following where you insert the linefeed, then you are scrolled past your present point of editing, forcing you to scrol...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

RAD insert an empty jaxb.index file in every package that does not contain any JAXB classes

Normally RAD insert in every package containing jaxb code, a Objectfactory.class containing the list of services. The customer ask that RAD insert an empty jaxb.index file in every package that does not contain any JAXB classes. The reference is a...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

Cannot display MetaData in SAS XML file

An XML file was generated from the SAS code:libname MetaTest xmlv2 '/home/gmiscevic/test.xml'; data MetaTest.RecordDet; set sashelp.class (obs=2); ;run;
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

REquest to enhance the RAM API to provide mthods, to able to add ram attribute values based on it's type

We use Ratiional Asset Manager API to submit the assets and add values to the asset attributes. The asset attributes are categorised as various types and one of then is LINK. To set value for this attribute, we need to include some html coding in ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Add support for additional properties such as Rating and Discussion in REST interface

The RAM REST API (https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RamV2RestApiMain) supports a very limited subset of all RAM asset attributes. I would like to see additional attributes included in the results from queries and available to set on assets. In p...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Change CreateWSRuntime to accept an SDK ID instead of a Java version

The CreateWSRuntime task supports an attribute, "javaVersion", which can contain either the value "6.0" or "7.0" for WAS 8.5. However, recently, IBM released JDK 1.7.1. There is no way, using CreateWSRuntime, to add a WAs 8.5 runtime that uses JDK...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 4 Future consideration

Provide a better way to remove partially Indexed Assets

Sometimes deleted assets still show up in searches or are part of partially indexed assets. The only remedy as of RAM 7.5.2 is to rebuild the indexes. However for enterprise clients with a large number of assets rebuilding indexes can take several...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration