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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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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

Project Areas for Document Builder

As an Application administrator I want to organize Document Builder in projects areas so I can manage user access or create team areas like other Jazz Applications (RM, ETM, EWM, ...) Context : When using Document Builder I have to configure a pub...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 3 Needs more information

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"...

We need to be able to see the return codes on datasources and handle links gracefully depending on the return codes.. some are critical and bad.. others can be ignored particularly 500 series errors

When using GC's some users wont have permissions to see the objects at the end of the link so when PUB follows those links and put them into a datasource they will work for users that have permissions but crash when a user does not have permission...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 1 Needs more information

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

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 useful to be able to gracefully break processing in code when bad conditions are detected rather than continue on until critical failure hiding where the issue occured.

There is a lot of error checking that can be done which would allow us to gracefully exit processing with a useful message rather than continue process until some component fails due to the bad conditions. A stop all processing function or a uniqu...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 6 Future consideration

ELO PUB should have the ability to install Eclipse Extension from the market place or other repositories.

ELO Pub as of IFix005 now does not support Javascript.. its major language because of limits in delivery licensing. PUB is already quite limited in that it does not allow external plugins to be installed. Allowing external plugins would allow user...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 3 Future consideration

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