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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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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...
almost 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...
about 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Advanced search allows to specify the number of artifacts in asset results

Currently, the RAM 7.5.x advanced search does not allow much flexibility with regards to filtering for asset artifact specs. It would be nice to filter/specify to only return assets with a certain number of artifacts i.e. all assets that have 2 ar...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Add pop-up window to "Relate asset" dialogue

In "Create relationship" dialogue it would be nice to have the pop-up, with a short asset description and Summary, that you get when hovering over an asset link.It would be easier to identify which asset to relate to. See also jazz community site,...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Export lifecycles and policies

When configurating lifecycles and policies, is it hard to get an overview of all states and corresponding policies. I would like to be able to export the states and policies to get a better overview and for problem investigation. See also Jazz Com...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration