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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Usability

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Mouse hover feature to preview document

Support comment: The mouse hover feature did used to work fine in the past for the EWM application (early 6.0.x releases) however, our team felt it was a security issue to have the preview shown for files such as PDFs, Excel and Word docs and as s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

See directly which user has written in a free text field in EWM

In EWM, it is impossible to see directly which user has written in a free text field in order to know the evolution of the thread.A workaround is to go in historical tab which shows all activities done on a ticket.That is to say that each time it ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries

A competitive tool has the possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries. This feature is frequently used to structure more complex queries hierarchically. Common sub-queries can be reused in different queries.Currently EWM does not prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow clickable column sorting of custom attributes in query results

When viewing query results, the column headers for out of the box fields are clickable to allow users to dynamically sort the query results by that column. The column headers for out of the box fields are also slightly bolded, whereas any custom a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Future consideration

One search function to identify repository workspaces of all members of the 1 project area we are in

In case of clean-ups, or reassignments, it would be beneficial to project admins and project managers to easily identify all repository workspaces of all users from within a single project. Currently either all project repository workspaces are li...
17 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 4 Future consideration

Search box glitch - In EWM after work item is loaded focus should not be set to the summary field.

In EWM after work item is loaded the focus is always set to the summary field. This different than in ETM or ERM.With slow network connection following annoying behavior can occur:1) open a work item (e.g. duplicate browser tab of existing work it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Increase size of upload area for attachments

The size of the drag & drop section to upload attachments for a workitem has decreased in size in > v. 7.0 which is confusing to users, especially since there is no error message in case of a miss.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

SCM Check-in and Deliver option does not provide option to link to a change request on another RTC server

Use case: Change sets from one RTC server to be linked to Change request from another RTC server. When "Check-in & Deliver" option is selected for checking in pending changes in the Eclipse Client, in the associate work item menu, it does not ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

RTC Query UI is not designed well

RTC Query UI is not designed well and doesn't utilize the entire available space in Query UI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Support ordering of work item approvals

This request is similar to this one raised in jazz.net:https://jazz.net/forum/questions/61309/can-you-specify-approval-order-for-work-item We have an approval flow and we would like to control approvals, so that approvals are not allowed out of or...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration