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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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Support JSON to Java and Java to JSON

Support JSON to Java and Java to JSON. Must reflect all of JSON in the generated Java, including description, constraints, etc. Could be javadoc comments or defined annotations, as done by existing toolsets. Most important to do from from JSON sch...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 2 Not under consideration

RSA-RTE auto-generate sequence diagram from trace view with events selection feature

currently, [Trace View] on RSA-RTE is used to show the msg calling info sending between passive classes but couldn't be used to auto-generate SD. For previous RoseRT users, they can benefit to have auto-generated SD from model tracing function. Pl...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

Tracebility between manual test scripts RQM and automated scrits tests in RFT

More details in PMR 34258,999,631 - RFT - test cases x automatic scriptTraceability and change control - Some automated scripts in RFT can be made based on the manual scripts of RQM. It would be interesting to have the manual control if the script...
over 14 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 5 Not under consideration

N-ary associations, connectors and links

We would like to be able to draw N-ary (i.e. with more than two ends) associations, association classes, connectors and links as described in the paragraphs 7.3.3, 7.3.4 and 8.3.2 of the UML 2.1.2 Superstructure, dated 07-11-02, and visualized in ...
over 15 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 7 Not under consideration

LAM Automation using JSON format and build API services and create JSON url for UCD application to integrate to LAM

LAM Automation using JSON format and build API services and create JSON url for UCD application to integrate to LAM As discussed with Product team, they have suggested it is not possible with JSON format which LAMTECH team from bank provided, One ...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

In IBM Web Administration for i, when configuring TLS, automatically generate and display the next available TLS port.

This would be very helpful for anyone trying to configure TLS for IWS. It is necessary to apply a unique port that is available. Determining an available port is very difficult for an IBM i admin user to do. The current process is to use NETSTAT o...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow Liberty to bind to unix file sockets

Dear community, we do have many applications on a vast number of network interfaces (if/eth) per unix host. In case we need fail-over, we assign multiple ports per application (e.g. 8000, 8001 for application 'a' and 8002 for application 'b'). Th...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

File Utils Plugin to support zip size checks

Currently the File Utils Plugin does no checks on the size of zip files to be extracted on the target host. This request is for the File Utils plugin to check a zip files size and the remaining space on the target device to prevent impact to targe...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

Make Synergy authentication case insensitive. (Or make it a configurable option.)

Making Synergy authentication insensitive will allow users that have their Active Directory accounts created automatically with an upper case letter, but the Linux accounts created with a lower case letter to verify as the same user. Currently NG'...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 1 Not under consideration

API to change the date and/or time of a scheduled process

If there are external dependencies, the exact time a process is needed may not be known, but it is still required to be pre-scheduled. There may be many such processes in a release, so re-scheduling all of them is time consuming.
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration