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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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Allow the startup behavior of ClearCase Doctor to be set at install time

By default the CC doctor runs at startup. For enterprise wide installs of CC this is not necessary. Allowing a response file to have the desired CC Doctor start-up behavior pre-set would be helpful for enterprise wide installs.
about 2 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

64 bit JRE for Rational Change

In a Change environment with 32 bit JRE, heap space is limited to 2 GB. In a Change instance with > 100 users online and frequent exchange with other interfaces, this memory does not suffice. It should be possible to use 64 bit JRE in Change, e...
about 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

RFT dispatch UI events into html5 <CANVAS> objects: example:: Mouse UP event listener is active on <CANVAS> dispatch Mouse UP

Application makes extensive use of <CANVAS>. Multiple WebGL Listeners are enabled on the <CANVAS> hence JavaScript is ready to execute on 2D and 3D WebGL objects. 3D model display manipulation and selection requires a complex Listener ...
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration

Rest API to query audit log

We need an API call to query fields in the audit log. This is useful for us to track occurrences in the audit log.
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

RSARTE:Documentation Generation

It would be nice to generate a document file out of the RSARTE Model, from the UML elements. So the information of the function is structured to the related to the functionality. As an output a state diagram and a related textual description could...
about 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Future consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Urban Code Deploy is needed.

The current GA release of UCD does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of UCD in our Enterprise environment.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

A space between -I option and the path makes the build occur an error in omake depending on the command line length

When build using omake with VS, a space between -I option and the path makes the build occur an error by command line length.The underlying problem is that the C compiler is not treating the line ending in the response file as whitespace, but rath...
about 4 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Not under consideration

Log Buffering Customization in UC Deploy

Since we upgraded to Deploy 7.x our process logs don't always show up-to-date information until the process step is finished. We were informed it's now standard behavior for the agent to send log information back to the server in chunks rather tha...
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Support for System i

WSA currently does not support IBM i, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=known-issues-limitations#ts-r-known__fixzosiseries. But my customer runs WAS ND on different platforms including Linux, Windows and System i and is interest...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enable CTE to run Make Baseline with existing dynamic or snapshot view

In CTE, "Make Baseline" (available from context menu of stream object) always creates a new view for the operation.
about 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration