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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Generate "Depends On" Section of RSA Web Report

When Publishing an RSA Web Report, we would like to see a section that shows the dependencies of classes on one another. For example: Class XXX - Depends On:AAABBBThe following entities depend on Class XXX:CCC
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA Navigate to Diagram Enhancement for Sequence Diagrams

Navigate to Diagram (from selected model element) should be enhanced to Sequence Diagram elements. It is very popular to want to find Sequence Diagram which refers a specific Operation, or Type. However, current (v8.5.1) version does not support t...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

[wi 86503] Addition of an API method and of an ant task to add an artifiact to a project in the RAM Eclipse Client

Currently, if you want to automatically add specific artifacts to a project in the RAM Eclipse Client, you are left with no other choices than the one of creating yourself a rambuildercontrol.xml file and adding the proper nature and builder to yo...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Ability to turn off in RSA share icon element on elements/lines of shared pieces between models

When reusing elements between two or more models, the shared element brings in a blue square icon with an arrow on it to show it is a shared element.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Support for Generalization Sets on class diagrams

Support for generalization sets on class diagrams, as defined in the Figure 7.40 of the UML 2.2 Superstructure specifications, should be included in IBM Rational Software Architect.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Inconsistent security in relation to user groups display

Telstra is using RAM7.5.1.1 and there are 40+ user groups in customer's environment. However, on the page [Communities] > [Any Community with user groups] > [Configuration], only 20 user groups are displayed in the list no matter if using an...
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 2 Future consideration

Allow encoded password on securityUtility createSSLCertificate

The securityUtility createSSLCertificate command requires a password that can only be in plain text. We'd like the ability to specify a password that is already encoded by the securityUtility encode command -- similar to the way in which encoded p...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

[wi 84143] Prevent Assets from Ever Being Deleted

We would like to be able to prevent assets from being deleted. We want users to always retire assets. This goes for administrators as well. Currently, there is no way to do this in RAM. Also, there is no way to recover a deleted asset in RAM, so u...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

Search wizard should have 'Consider derived resources' activated by default.

The default behaviour of the search wizard should be to find ALL occurrences of a file including 'derived' versions. The 'consider derived resources' checkbox could be relegated to a 'twisty' in the wizard which allows various filter criteria to b...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Future consideration

[wi 83776] Change state of an asset from one state to another in RAM using REST API which RAM doesn't currently supports

Request : We would like you to raise an RFE for the functionality which is not currently supported by RAM using REST API. Problem - We are currently using RAM 7.5.1 and REST API and have set the workflow in RAM server as Submitted->Review->A...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration