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Enterprise Extensions

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Need documentation and support for COBOL to Java interoperability builds

Customer would like to use cjbuild in an EWM EE build on z/OS to manage COBOL to Java interoperability programs. A tutorial or sample on how to configure such a build in EWM is needed.

Managing Subset Folders in a Project Area

It would be useful to be able to create and manage Subset Folders in a Project Area. We would like to separate the Subsets according to the application they refer to. I think that more search criteria would be useful. Actually we can only find sub...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

pass dependency data to IProcessBuildableFilesAndOutputs

With the com.ibm.team.enterprise.build.preprocess.buildableFilesAndOutputs extension point we implement the IProcessBuildableFilesAndOutputs interface. The main method to implement has this signature: void processBuildableAndDeletedOutputs( Map<...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 0 Future consideration

A progressbar when building a subset would be desirable

When I want to create a subset from a workitem, the create-task runs in background, but we can't see that it is running. So we do not see that EWM is busy doing this. A simple progressbar would solve this problem
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 2 Not under consideration

Improve the subset creation transaction to prevent DB2 deadlock -913 error

Customer runs nightly builds and has developed a custom headless plugin calling APIs createBuildableSubsetFromWorkItems() and modifyBuildableSubset(). When 3 builds are run concurrently and creates 3 subset workitems on a large number of componen...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Create and Manage Subset Folders in RTC Enterprise Extension

It would be useful to be able to create and manage Subset Folders in a Project Area.We would like to separate the Subsets according to the application they refer to.
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 3 Not under consideration

Add support for C dependency where #include is not followed by a space

In EWM Enterprise Extension, some C dependencies might be missing on the source code data editor, for example when included through a directive like #include<stdio.h> or #include"test". It works with directives like #include "test2" so with ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

More search criteria for build subsets

Actually we can find only subsets owned by the selected users. I think that more search criteria (application, subset id, ... ) would be very useful. Thanks in advance, Hong Nghiem
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Need to link promotion follow up action "Run Target Build" with "Modify Work Item State"

We can configure follow up actions for a promotion on the process configuration of a project area, like "Run Target Build" and "Modify Work Item State". The problem is that these 2 actions are unrelated and the promotion work item state is changed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 2 Not under consideration

source.epoch/source.timestamp available as a system variables for a z/OS translator

like @{source.version}, is usable for audit/tracing etc, when running zOS translators, the actual changetime of the file, would be more accurate. As the internal epoch time allready is available, and is stored into build maps etc, this can ensure ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Future consideration