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RSA: adding Error and Cancel Event to BPMN Notation

The BPMN specification knows more events than the actual implemented set of BPMN events in RSA.RSA is right now somewhere at the DESCRIPTIVE level according zo OMG (http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/PDF , page 2). Really useful would be the implemt...
about 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

Ability to use path map variable or classpath of the project with the Java visualization.

UML models (*.emx-files) and class diagrams (*.dnx-files) should be independent from the project in which they were created.Using Path map variable or the classpath of the current project to resolve Java types could help to achieve this.
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

Cannot reconnect communication paths on deployment diagrams

RSA should allow users to reconnect communication paths from one node to another on a deployment diagram. Currently, the "Reconnect not supported" message appears if you try to do this, RSA does not support the re-orientation of communication path...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Planned for future release

RSA 8.04 - Use Case Format / Fill / Custom color broken

In RSA 8.04, in a use case diagram, we are able to change colors of the use case 'bubble'. However, none of the custom colors work. Please enhance the product to allow the additional colors to be displayed. This is necessary for very large diagram...
almost 13 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 4 Planned for future release

Support for a more recent version of Eclipse

Rational Software Architect Designer (RSAD) should support a more recent version of Eclipse than 4.7.
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 1 Planned for future release

Framework to extend the TADDM importer in RSA

The framework to extend the TADDM importer in RSA so that user can define their custom mapping and import the data from TADDM's CCMDB into RSA.
over 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

RSA DAP: Validator for Port Uniqueness

In Deployment Planning, a validator should be available for IP Ports to verify uniqueness across all units configuring ports in the scope of an operating environment. For example, the TCP Listener for MQ must determine an IP port for a given IP Ad...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

RSA DAP: Constraints not well defined for MQ and Broker Deployment Planning units

Feature implementation request and supplemented documentation to be produced for RSA gaps found during testing: * Queues/channels - need constraints added to ensure cluster and cluster namelist do not appear together * All channels - connection na...
about 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 3 Planned for future release

RSA 8.5 x64, add ability to save layer name when adding a new layer

While in a class diagram, using layers, when you add a new layer, type the name in, and then click the plus sign to add an additional layer, they name of the previous layer is lost. Please add the ability to retain the newly typed in name for the ...
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release

RSA 8.5 x64, unable to word wrap notes properly in NON-rich text mode

Please add the ability to a NOTE to word wrap properly without breaking a word in the middle of its text when in non-rich text mode.
over 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 Planned for future release