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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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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...
7 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

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

Warning box on unchecking the checkbox for creating CCM links

In the option to create links from requirements management to Work Items in change and configuration management, 1. There is an option to create check or uncheck to see the work items in the current global configuration. 2. If checked the work ite...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

No possibility to provide comments for a specific approval

This possibility is missing. Espercially on rejection of an approval it shall be possible to provide a comment that is related to the approval.
11 months 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