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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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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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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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhance version exploration mechanism

On artefacts with a lot of versions, scrolling through the entire tree of versions is terrible. The scrolling window is very small and I need to scroll a little bit, then drag the gray area box until it reaches a proper location and then repeat. T...
24 days 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 Things like environments are out of date and don't have any relevance to non software testing.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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Display of multivalued categories in ETM

When a multi-valued category type field is grouped in the scenario list display, the test scenario must be present in each group. Example: T1 (cat1, cat2); T2 (cat1, cat3) The grouped display by category must be: Cat1 --> (T1, T2); Cat2 (T1); C...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Filter search should ignore leading/trailing spaces in input

When entering a value with a leading space in the filter search field on the RQM Work Items page, no matching results are returned even though the same text without the space exists in the dropdown. The filter should be more user-friendly by trimm...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Needs more information

ETM : In a Test Suite, modify the Test Case execution order with Drag & Drop

Our ETM version is 7.0.2. In a Test Suite, if you want to modify the execution order of one or more Test Cases, you must: - select the Test Case(s)- then click on the "up" or "down" arrow to modify this execution order Would it be possible to impr...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Adopt image resizing for CKEditor to allow resizing images in Chrome and Edge browsers.

Currently in ETM if using Firefox you can resize images within a Test Script. But you cannot in Chrome or Edge. In the following forum a CKEditor Developer stated that with the Enhanced Plugin Image Resizing is available for all browsers. Not able...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Enable resize of picture embedded in test step description

We need a resize menu option in test step descriptions where the user can input x and y size of the picture - similar to the "manage image" button+menu already existing e.g. beside the menu "full size and thumbnail" with an additional option "cust...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration