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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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Need column "modified by" in the test case list for filter

In test case list, there is only "creator" and "owner" column and last modify time for filter. But no "modified by" column to identify whom is last modified user, it is not convenience for test manager to find out which test cases are modified by ...
8 days ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Upgrade and Support the latest YOLO model in Maximo Visual Inspection

YOLO Models has released the latest v12 version in early 2025. Since version V3, YOLO Models has released a number of significant updates and improvements. But we still use YOLO v3 in the latest Maximo Visual Inspection. I know that there is a lot...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Visual Inspection / MVI 0 Planned for future release

Folder-Based Organization for Test Cases in ETM

Hello, I’d like to propose a usability enhancement that would significantly improve large-scale test management: native folder-based organization for Test Cases within ETM. Problem: In real projects, Test Cases quickly grow into hundreds or thousa...
14 days ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Maximo Visual Inspection Edge doesn't support High Availability

Currently, Maximo Visual Inspection Edge doesn't support High Availability. The customer believes that it is used in a production environment and should support high availability. I've offered two options to my clients. The first way is to require...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Visual Inspection / MVI Edge 0 Planned for future release

Add MVI Mobile devices to MVI Edge manager view

Add the capability so that MVI Mobile devices show up on the MVI "edge manager" screen. This is needed to help understand how many edge inspections are associated with a client deployment and to gain basic information about where those inspections...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Visual Inspection / MVI 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to import and update artefacts in ETM with an Excel importer such as in EWM & ERM

ETM users often manipulate a lot of artefacts. Some of them are originating from legacy external sources, and some of them are manipulated in offline mode (test benches, etc.). It would be very useful to have an Excel importer for most of the upda...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow bulk category updates even if some related subcategories remain unassigned

Hello, In ETM (Engineering Test Management), when working with hierarchical category and subcategories structures, we sometimes want to apply a bulk update of the main category to a group of artifacts. However, when trying to do this, ETM blocks t...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

ETM is hardcoded OOB towards software testing. Things like environments are out of date and don't have any relevance to non software testing.

ETM can be used for a wide range of projects which are NOT software focussed however many of the fields are VERY tightly tied to software testing. Things like environments which still reference windows XP! . These are difficult to remove and it is...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Need to keep the exif metadata of the picture (especially latitude and longitude) throughout the entire analysis

Need to keep the exif metadata of the picture (especially latitude and longitude) throughout the entire analysis and include in the json file generated by the MVI. This is essential for all the MVI use-cases related to assets inspections such as p...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Visual Inspection / MVI 2 Planned for future release

Add more link type in test script step

Today, in our company, more and more projects are using ETM. Some project are migrating from Excel or DOORS to ETM in order to manage the traceability with the requirements. However, sometimes the requirements change are only provided by a Change ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration