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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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Enhance New Web Project wizards to allow folder location outside of workspace

Our team uses RAD for Java/WebSphere application development. In RAD 8.5 and 9.0, we need to use the New Web Project wizard to create web application projects. This wizard lacks the ability to select a project location. We store projects outside o...
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error - liberty version 8.5.5.0

liberty_version = "8.5.5.0" - Error when there is a special character in URL (for domain) like '%' (e.g. - http://localhost:9080/mrm/s1%/login ). SRVE0232E: Internal Server Error. Exception Message: [URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

[wi 101958]Rational Asset Manager must be able to Distinguish Versions Properly

RAM considers assets with versions of "1" and "1.0" to be different.This is wrong and should be corrected.
almost 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Ability to generate Java classes from a WADL

WADL is a standard used to describe RESTful services.Typically, when interacting with a RESTful service, the client application needs to parse the emitted JSON or XML and reconstruct some Java objects to represent that data.The information require...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

[wi 93505]RAM should advice that no record found instead of show nothing in Add Reviewer dialog box

When user try to add reviewers that are valid it finds and lists them but if the search name is incorrect then it just sits there and does not advise that the search found nothing matching the criteria. RAM should show warning messages that no rec...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

[wi 66075]Options to to help user to add asset artifact label

Client has asset restriction that some asset must have specific label to attached artifact. But adding label option is available in advanced upload only. There are two possible enhancements:1) To add information that to add artifact label user nee...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 5 Future consideration

RDM Linking should remember previous selections

RDM Linking requires many selections to be made:1. Link Type2. Project area3. Create/Select artifact4. Search kind5. Type of elementetc, depending on the type of search
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Future consideration

[wi 91932 ]Values be displayed and visible at all times when adding add Reviewers/Approvers

When adding Reviewers/ Approvers it only displays a blank search screen and pop-up window and the user cannot see what values are going to be searched for. What is required here is that the drop down values be displayed and visible at all times so...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

EJB Client jar location

When creating EJB client JAR file in RAD 8.5, depending on the steps taken, the location of the jar is either root of the EAR or the EAR lib directory. This becomes confudsing to the developers. This is also affecting our common build script we ar...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 2 Future consideration

[wi 91817]Email template i.e. logos / font, should be able to be changed

RAM Email template i.e. logos / font, should be able to be changed to follow end user's standard.
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration