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Initial loading of work items in the EWM Plan View should be under 5 seconds by only partially loading the plan work items

The current loading speed of the plan view becomes increasingly slower as the number of work items within the plan increases over time. Currently an initial loading of a plan with 1000 work items takes around 15-20 seconds. The customer plans to a...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Baselining of schedule (plan) is currently unavailable in EWm plan. Baselining would allow the date sets previously planned to be made available as records for all future comparison with current set of start and end dates

Baselining is a best practice followed in project management in order to retain data on previously agreed baseline. Current set of dates are compared to the last baseline to show the departure of current plan in comparison to the baseline. This fa...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Provision to consider half day leave or hourly absences in Planning

Current Feature : Currently, users can add the scheduled absences on a daily basis. Enhancement : We are also looking for the option to add half-day leave or hourly absences. Benefits : Planning would be better
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

EWM Widgets - Editable Plan view required

Be able to configure the "Plan View" widget or get a new widget so that items are saved directly when modifications are entered on the dashboard widget. No need to switch on full screen plan view to save all modifications.
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Planning Timeline to display based on Duration(start and end date)

As of now, Planning timeline is displayed based on the user allocation and effort estimated for that work item. We have a use case where User will be allocated with a task and he might use the external resource who will not be the part of project ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the multi project management

Add the possibility to follow up EWM tickets in the planning over multiple timelines if they are related
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Would like to customize the GUI of WorkItems displayed over plans: Scrumboard in particular

The planning component of the Rational Enterprise Workflow Management is one of the nicest part of Jazz/EWM. But it is defining by default what are the several fields used and picked for displaying: Summary, Points, Owner, Status, etc...In particu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Create a widget Plan to display Quick Planner on the dashboard

As for the plan view, will it be possible to create a widget to display the quick planner ? It will permit to have all the board centralized in the project dashboard instead of going in the menu.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Allow ranking in a Quick Planner Work Board

Users like the flexibility of a Work Board in quick planner which allows custom lanes that are not always based on Iteration, but would also like to be able to apply ranking to the lanes as they can in the Plan Board type.
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Make custom text attributes modifiable in a plan view

Currently it is possible to edit some attributes directly in a plan view, e.g. enum attributes but also the summary of a work item. Unfortunately it is not supported to edit text attributes directly in this view. Especially for attributes with sma...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration