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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Framework (WebServices) does not build with recent gcc version.

On platforms using gcc the code for library Share\WebServices fails to build with recent versions, e.g. gcc 15.2. New versions of gcc does not accept Kernighan & Ritchie code style As a _quick_ workaround I have fixed the compile process by ad...
about 2 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted

I'd like to have a comprehensive document on Rhapsody's code generating capabilities, i.e. what diagarms / model elements generate code.

Before starting to build a model, where code generation is the target, users should know in advance, what model elements will generate code. I've wasted a lot of my and customer service engineers' time om elaborating Sequence Diagrams, which turne...
about 1 month ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / UX Improvement 0 Submitted

Official support for MSYS2 as alternative to Cygwin & MinGW and allow for clang as an alternative compiler to gcc

MSYS2 (https://www.msys2.org) is a Cygwin clone but with a less restrictive license for core components (LGPL instead of GPL). It provides also MinGW support with different environments, i.e. combinations of toolchain / architecture / C(++)-librar...
about 2 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted

Complete the possibility of importing customAttributes of type LINK correctly

In our company, we intended to use the ETM Excel Importer to import mass data of Test Case Results from Excel. We have enhanced our data model of the Test Case Result with custom attributes of type LINK. The custom attribute LINK is a tuple, consi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Rhapsody’s documentation should be clarified for the RhpPluginCleanup and RhpFinalPluginCleanup API call.

Rhapsody’s documentation uses “Close” in the description of RhpFinalPluginCleanup and uses “Exit” in the description of RhpFinalPluginCleanup. Several people at our company as well as the IBMers and a consultant all assumed “Close” is called when ...
2 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted

Allow setting the external URI for categories directly during creation with the ETM Excel Import Utility

Hello, When using the ETM Excel Import Utility to create categories and values in a project, the tool automatically generates the internal URIs for those categories. At the moment, there is no way to define or customize the “External URI” (or any ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Enable Creation of Hierarchical Categories with Parent-Child Relations Using the Excel Import Utility in ETM

Hello, The proposed workaround from IBM Support was to simulate folder structures using categories and subcategories. This is a valid approach, but it cannot be fully automated using the current ETM Excel Import Utility, which is a major limitatio...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

It would be very usefull if pointer types could be defined in argumments

Pointer / reference type is widely used in C/C++ programs, so Rhapsody should also support this. It would highly improve the efficiency of the generated code.
6 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted

Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Linking Test Script Step Results to Requirement using Excel Importer Utility

In 7.0.3 it is now possible to link test script step and requirement. 'TestScript that link steps with existing requirements 002' from sample folder for test script step and requirement linking.(v7.0.3) Usually the links from test script step Resu...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration