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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Provide easy way to download in one gesture all the files of a change set

Customers who generally work in the Web UI need to review change set contents. To do that they often need to download all the files of the change set. This is especially true if the files in the change set are binary or a special format like Micro...
8 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 0 Submitted

[IDz] Merge window: Button Current Change from Right to Left (or Left to Right) should be deactivated once clicked

In the merge window of IDz, after clicking on the button "Copy Current Change from Right to Left (or Left to Right)", we can see the modification in two editors. However this button is still there and clickable if we don't save. In the case of add...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Add a "Description" field for EWM Components in Streams

A field "Description" can be filled for a EWM stream. The demand here is to have the same: a "Description" field for components. Field modified either via the web browser, or the Eclipse client.
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Allow users to download all files in a change set with a simple download gesture

Customers are not able to review files in the Web UI source control when they are MS Office type files such as *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx etc. They click on the change set link in a work item, and it takes them to source control in the Web UI showing ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

option to ignore Cobol sequence numbers on the SCM web UI

When comparing Cobol sources in the EWM SCM web UI in the browser, and sequence numbers were either removed or reordered between the compared versions, the comparison shows all the lines as being modified just because of these sequence number chan...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Find local disk sandbox associated with repository workspace

why is it useful? currently if a developer has many repository workspaces say 10 repository workspaces then overtime the developer may forgot where the local sandbox loaded location is located on disk for each of the 10 repository workspaces. Alth...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

add in EWM SCM Advanced Search also the info the Stream where the component is used

Current behavior: in Advanced search, you can see only the project area that contains the component in the name tab. if you have a component with the same name in different Streams belong to the same PA, the results given by Advanced Search is con...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with role/permissions controll

Actual the custom attribute function do not have any permission controll, not for an adminitrator who define these attributes, nor for the end user who set the attribute values. SCM custom attributes should be managed similar to work item attribut...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with attribute data type of enumeration

Actual the custom attribute function only supports attribute based on the data type String. This sould be enhanced with other attribute data types as: Enumeration, with the option to create a specific enumeration value list. Customers in the Syste...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Permissions behavior with EWM in Linux

For example, I have a script in Linux with permissions of 755. I checked it in, Steve accepted my change, and on his side he does not have the same permissions. It appears that RTC only saves one set of permissions, I assume the "public" permissio...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration