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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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The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram

The project explorer menu entry "Visualize->Explore in Browse Diagram" is not available for behavior classifiers such as Activities and Opaque Behavior. By starting the Browse Diagram from any other kind of classifier that has a relationship to...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to document operations exceptions

Nearly all the elements on a method can be documented: the return value, the parameters and the method itself but there is no way to document the exception(s) of an operation. Currently there is no documentation field that would allow you to direc...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Visual indication that a property has a corresponding association

Currently when viewing the list of properties of a Class, for example, there is no visual way to tell which properties have corresponding associations
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to open external webpage in a separate web browser window

It should be possible to have the external webpage from a web published model opened in a separate web browser window.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Future consideration

Add ability to transform SoaML Models to SCA 1.1

Rational Application Developer 8.5 introduces development support for OASIS SCA (Service Component Architecture) 1.1.This support is missing from the UML to SCA Transform.
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Add an option to the xmi importer to force creation of BaseProfile and UML Primitive Types

When importing an XMI file that represents a profile which does not contain a stereotype that makes use of the possibilities offered by the "ProfileBase" profile, "ProfileBase" isn't added to the list of its applies profiles. Similarly, when impor...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

Style of RichText tables should be configurable.

When creating a table in a RichText enabled field of RSA (for instance under the Documentation tab in the properties view), the table comes with a global border, and each single cell is also bordered. This gives the confusing impression that every...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA DAP: Unit Installation State update on Realization link resolution

Scenario:1. A conceptual topology representing asset version x is represented in a physical topology as an imported topology2. A physical topology represents all Units being in an Installed state3. The designer imports an updated version of the co...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA DPA: Model Dialogue Extream

There is no Deployment Planning domain defined for Dialogue Extream.http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/software/eda/eda.html
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration

RSA DAP: Model IBM DataStage Server

There is no Deployment Planning domain defined for IBM DataStage.
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Future consideration