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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...
6 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Needs more information

Separate Operation in RTC Process template to modify "Workitem Templates"

Current State: In Process template of RTC-CHM Project Area, “Modify Process Specifications” includes Changes to role definitions, permissions assigned to roles, operation behavior (preconditions and follow-up actions), iterations, configuration da...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs.

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs. Therefore, you can save the logs to a single log file to avoid interference by log4j.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

EWM Eclipse - Add option for opening the location of a file in file explorer

The behavior of what "Open Local File" opens, how and if it can be saved is not predictable for a user and he will always assume it opens in a way it can be saved as well, but sometimes it is not saved correctly. Several colleagues already have lo...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Local files of different types should be opened in the windows default editor

When opening files within EWM Eclipse, the different types of files should be opened in a local application, or windows default application, instead of opening some of them in the internal viewer. Or at least, the tool should give you this option....
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

A mobile app to do few of the basic activities for EWM

It has been ever demanding needs from the user community to have an App so that they can perform activities like: 1. Viewing the plan 2. Updating the status of a work item 3. Creating a new work item 4. View the Dashboard (Optional) 5. Few Basic a...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

In EWM Eclipse client, provide an option to open a Project Area (in Team Artifacts view) as Read-Only

I had two project ares open in EWM Eclipse client. One (production) I was looking at the process configuration to help me decide what to change in a 2nd project area (test area). I inadvertenly changed production and caused a few headaches. If the...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add info icon next to the attribute as it appears in the permission section of the RTC Project area

Today RTC offers the tooltip, but it does not provide any visual indication that some note is available. The RTC as an application has this nice implementation in the Permission section of the tool. where you shall be able to see an info icon. I u...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

New Command Line for getting the file version and modified date in a single command

I am using the SCM Command Line Interface to get specific file information and update them in an Excel sheet. Currently, to get the file version and the date it was updated, I use the following two command lines: Version Information - scm list fil...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Enable email THREADING for EWM Work Item Emails

It is our opinion that ENGEWM-I-388 was closed due to a lack of understanding of the request. EWM currently allows "Aggregate Same Work Item Changes in a Single Email" which is not the function requested (although quite helpful) Function requested...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration