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PINNED Power BI capability alignment between Desktop vs embedded solution
Requesting Customer: Fraser Property but this would benefit all customers using Envizi Power BI capability Business Impact: The Frasers Property Team have recently explored the use of the embeded PowerBI functionality and have found that there are...

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Add API operation(s) to manage "And line" in the statechart diagrams

Context : We are developing more and more in product lines and we need to merge automatically statecharts in Rhapsody models by updating graphical elements of the diagram through the API. Problem : No operation to get a statechart "and line" pos...

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...
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

Requirement for Java API's to support Display Options

Hello Team, We are trying to configure Display Options through our custom-developed plugin, but we are unable to find the corresponding Java APIs to achieve the required functionality. Below are the scenarios where API support is needed: Scenario ...

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

Custom display for ItemFlows in diagrams (None, All, Explicit)

It would be very useful to have the ItemFlows tab in Display Options of Flows like we have for Ports of Blocks in diagrams (in Display Options > Ports tab) to show in a specific diagram:-All ItemFlows-None-Explicit ItemFlows Or any other way to...

Required APIs for managing custom browser window

Hi, Presently no APIs are avaible to manage custom browser view in Rhapsody. Example: In custom browser window if we want to hide some elements or show some elements or delete from view.As like diagram view we have APIs to manage elements views in...

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

Ensure Rhapsody actually supports the Java language by modernising the JDKRefModel

We think it is reasonable to expect that Rhapsody is kept up to date with the progression of versions of the tools and languages it supports. After all, Java SE6 is now many, many years old. We would kindly ask you to treat this as a necessary upd...
6 months ago in IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering / Functional Improvement 0 Submitted

In today's integration requirements we require a small timeout option less than 1 second.

Without impacting the overall user experience some critical checks need to be completed (like fraud check) in milliseconds. The latency at any point should be identified clearly.