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Include formal gates and input/output parameters to sequence diagram references

Hello, according to UML specification (2.5.1) interactions can have formal gates (Figure_17.1_UMLSpecification.png). They would allow messages from and to the diagram frame, see Figure_17.4_UmlSpecification.png and Figure_17.14_UmlSpecification.pn...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Custom Stereotype for Activity not Accessible in ObjectModelDiagram (Block Definition Diagram) Toolbar

Dear all, I'm searching for a way to insert an "Activity" inside a "Block definition diagram". I found, that the "ActivityBox" for the Drawing Toolbar does the job. My Problem is, that I want to define a SystemProcess Stereotype. The Problem is, t...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 3 Future consideration

Sequence diagrams with merged lifelines possible

It would be very useful to have this feature available: to create “unified” sequence diagrams that encompass several layers of architecture - e.g. “black-box” System Level, White-Box SW Architecture level and potentially detail level in between in...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Custom view to filter the elements inside a diagram

ustom view is not filtering the elements inside the diagrams. For example : If one diagram contains the attributes and on of the attribute does not qualify the filter then , customview cannot do that level of filter. In the same time , if there ar...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 2 Future consideration

Display creator, creation date, modifier and modification date for diagrams and model elements

To better enable collaboration and configuration control of models.
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Suggest to the Rhapsody user that they should deliver their work if they attempt to unlock a modified unit

Rhapsody is allowing an unlock without delivering the changes. Some people have made this error, which is causing differences and a need to merge. The users are then failing to do a merge properly, which requires repairs.
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Suggest to the Rhapsody user that they should update the unit if they attempt to lock a unit that is not up to date

When a user locks a unit, Rhapsody is not forcing (or suggesting) the user to first update their model before locking. Many people are locking without updating the model, and this leads to conflicts because they are making updates on an older vers...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Search & replace capability for function arguments

Hello, Currently it is not possible to search & replace a certain arugment value in sequence diagram for instance. It requires to do manually the check call by call if a certain argument is used. It would save lot of times if Rhapsody could al...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Create Rhapsody metamodel from textual requirement using AI

This old idea dated back in 2019 if not earlier when we tried to optimize engineering with AI. We had begun with Requirements Quality Assistant (RQA) which uses Watson Natutal Language Understanding and Watson Knowledge Studio. Given the recent de...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 2 Future consideration

Flows that are placed on connectors cannot be selected in an IBD

Flows that are placed on connectors cannot be selected in an IBD. Only the connector can be selected.Even if you navigate manually to the flow, it is not possible to access the flow items.See attachment flow_items.png People would like to use the ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration