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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Administration

Order of subcategories

Current Status: If custom categories for artifacts (test cases, test plans etc) are created, one can change the order of appearance by moving single categories up or down in the list of categories. Subcategories however cannot be changed in their ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

As an Admin, I would like my users to not be asked "Would you like to copy requirements from the new added test scripts to this test case?" when link synchronization between Test Cases and Test Script Steps is enabled

Problem: Enable the following: 1) "Copy requirement links to test case from test script steps when child test script is added"2) "Synchronize requirement links from test script steps to test case when test script is saved" Admins expect that the a...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

Possibility of defining “Validated by” link constraints between ERM and ETM

See the screenshot "2024-07-09 12_34_01-Window.png". The QM Test Case 364 validate the RM artifacts 45130, 43907, 43390 and 43391 45130 is a "Heading" artifact 43907 is an "Information" artifact 43390 and 43391 are "Requirement" artifacts In our i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

Make visible Unique ID that can be assigned in RQM Excel Importer Tool

In RQM, the excel importer tool allows for a unique ID to be imported and assigned to a Test Case while utilizing the command testcase.XLSArtifactID="Value". Do to the way that our project teams work, they have requirements and procedures written ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Not under consideration

Allow Configurable Category Value Length in ETM

In ETM, there is no native concept of folders to organize artifacts such as Test Cases. A common workaround is to use Categories to simulate a folder structure by creating hierarchical category values. Ideally, this would be handled through true m...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

Emptying Trash must not affect Baseline

Emptying trash actually also remove the purged artifacts from Baselines.That means a baseline can be affected years later after its creation by such an action and detection is very difficult since it is incomplete and it is not obvious which artif...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

RQM process/project template inheritance

RQM process inheritance issue summarized below which were discussed with Christophe Telep (RQM Product Manager): 1. For an enterprise client like MBDA, it is not feasible or scalable to manually run combinations of various copy utilities (RQM API,...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Not under consideration

Requirement to maintain Incrementing prefix pattern in RQM post migration from DOORS CLASSIC

Our unique ID solution for RQM is currently lacking, especially compared to what DOORS Classic was capable of. This impacts our ability to migrate projects that previously had test cases stored in DOORS Classic. DC allowed for a prefix to be assig...
over 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Not under consideration

As an Admin, I would like to have Access Control based on each Test Artifact

In a Project Area we can have multiple teams, but not all teams necessarily should have access to everything in the Project Area. If we need to introduce a new team to the Project Area that should not have access to certain Test Artifacts, there i...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Future consideration

As a RQM administrator - Request to view all Export print jobs from all project areas at qm admin web page

As a RQM administrator - Request to view all Export print jobs from all project areas at qm admin web page - If the export print jobs are stuck, we have no way to find out in which project area these jobs are executed. We also noticed QM performan...
over 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration Not under consideration