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Remember sizing of the script window

Context : When using Publisihing Studio to modify a RPE template, we add scripts in our templates. To edit the scripts, the editor opens a new window with two sides : one to select the used variables, and one to write the script itself. Problem : ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 2 Not under consideration

Virtual data sources

Working on a report for a client where this feature would fix everything. We have a requirement artifact in DOORS Next. That requirement has incoming "Parent Of" links. The incoming "Parent Of" linked artifacts themselves have incoming "Parent Of"...

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

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

Microsoft Word Content Controls Handling

RPE/PUB is able to generate old “Document Properties” of Microsoft Word (of *.doc) but it doesn’t support yet the new “Content Controls” (of *.docx) or the Custom XML. Is there a way to create/fill a “Content Control” or “XML Attribute” by means o...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 7 Future consideration

Add error handler for ignored Data Source Configuration and Invalid Data Errors

Add an Error Handler for Ignore Data Source Configuration Errors -> trueand Ignore Invalid Data Errors -> truewithin elements in the template, so that context dependent messages can be printed into the log *and* into the generated document t...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 4 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

Option to add code pattern field in Attribute.

Use case: There is no code pattern field in attribute to provide the user defined pattern. Justification: Seems there is code pattern field in operation return type an argument to provide the user defined pattern which is inconsistent with attribu...
5 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted