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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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PUBDB NEEDS image Size and Aspect Ratio control when Export to Excel

PUB Documentation Builder currently supports Aspect Ratio retention and size constraining when outputting to MS Word document, it however doesn't when outputting to MS Excel. RM-DNG data by its nature is only practically viable via Excel, however,...

ability to create PDF's with custom properties like it is working for Word

When generating word documents it is possible to add file properties like e.g. Tags, Keywords, ... as well as custom properties to it. If pdf's are generated then only file properties can be written but no custom properties! Unfortunately the exch...

Support RPE in windows 11

today, company OS will evolved in windows 11 Entreprise, with 2 updates a year. The tool should be able to follow the OS evolutions in order to ensure the support of users in the new OS. Rational Publishing Engine should have at minimum a Roadmap ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 1 Delivered

RPE template comparison function

RPE template comparison function is missing. When editing an existing RPE Template (.dta), or reviewing an evolution, it is impossible to highlight changes since previous version or differences with other templates.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 7 Delivered

External boolean Values as Checkbox in RPENG

Hello to all, for documents that use external variables of type Boolean there are two different representations. In DNG they are displayed as a checkbox. In the RPE or also in the RPENG they are shown as string (true/false). It would be great if t...

Provide an excel template file option in the Excel output of PUB Launcher

When using the Word output, it is possible to provide a stylesheet that already contains contents. It would be very helpful to have the same feature in the Excel output. Being able to provide an excel file that already contains contents will offer...

Administrator of Document builder cannot see schedules of other users.

ADMINISTRATOR_A is a member of the Jazz-Admin user group, and also listed as "Web admin users" in the Runtime Variables of PUB ADMINISTRATOR_A cannot see schedules created by other users. For e.g. USER_A created several schedules in Document Build...

Improvement to Excel output from Publishing

In the Excel output generated from Publishing, the images are floating and the table will spread across multiple columns and rows. Thus the Excel export from Publishing is not really useful. It will be good if the images and tables from DNG (or ET...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 3 Delivered

Please upgrade the suported javascript library version to a most recent version

Currently the javacript version suported by RPE is "ECMA Script 3" which is based on wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history) released by Dec. 1999. The current version is 13 from Jun 2022! We always encounter issues an...

Custom theme Support for Document Builder

Hi, Currently Custom theme is supported in other applications like RM, CCM, QM, ... We would expect similar support in Document Builder and Reporting Service as it is very critical for Business helps users in guiding on "How to use applications".