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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

Rational Automated Software Quality

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Support for RFT playback with different zoom levels in Firefox web browser

Support for RFT playback with different zoom levels in Firefox web browser.Currently playback fails with 120 % or more zoom levels in Firefox web browser
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Not under consideration

RPT reporting 0ms in measurements

Currently, RPT can only report times in millisecond precision. Anything below gets rounded up or down. In most cases this is fine. However, it becomes problematic when the time is less than 1ms, where RPT reports 0ms instead. We do not think it is...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 4 Not under consideration

Terminal emulator support on Docker image

Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration

Export project discards library and order history of Generic Service Client

For REST / SOA service testing, RPT feeds a request library (requisitions) as well as a history of executing these requests during the development of the test script. Protocol settings are also created for authenticated services and / or you use S...
over 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to log a verification point within a JavaScript

It would be wonderful to be able to log a verification point status within a JavaScript. This saves times having to write custom Java Code to then log the status.
about 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

Need Testing feature in IBM RIT tool to do unit testing of Java based Stub

Unit testing of java stubs created by java virtualization
about 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

RFT should Accessing embedded Windows PowerBI report

We created the IBM Case TS006713298 in the past concerning a website including WindowsPowerBi. We want to be able to acess the control behind the root tag Even with WebUiEngine we cannot find anything in the code (In Internet Explorer it was acces...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

RFT WebUI automated script should support actions on the HTML page located locally while recording

Case number TS006982051 1. Launch IBM-RFT2. Open the existing Web UI Project3. Create a new test4. Select the “Test from Recording”5. RFT launches the selected browser – Chrome6. Enter the HTML file location - file://mndeeddom.deed.state.mn.us/dat...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Planned for future release

How to export test script screenshots in sequential order in RTW generated in results file

How to export test script screenshots in sequential order in RTW generated in results file
about 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 3 Not under consideration

Add Support for PowerBuilder 2019R3

Our application under test is coded using PowerBuilder 12.5 and there is a wish to upgrade it to PB2019R3, however; support for RFT stops at 12.6.
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration