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Global Electromagnetic Systems Completion Program (GESCP) Bridging Classical Electromechanics, Modern Power Electronics, and Networked Control Systems

IBM–DARPA RESEARCH SUBMISSION Title: Global Electromagnetic Systems Completion Program (GESCP) Bridging Classical Electromechanics, Modern Power Electronics, and Networked Control Systems Abstract This program develops a unified framework to moder...

UNIVERSAL ADVANCED EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AGI (UAEI-AGI) Universal Advanced Emotional Intelligence Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence Research

UNIVERSAL ADVANCED EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AGI (UAEI-AGI) Universal Advanced Emotional Intelligence Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence Research Executive Summary Universal Advanced Emotional Intelligence for AGI (UAEI-AGI) is a co...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration

GCM historical baselines

Creation of historical baselines are available for a local DOORS NG stream in version 7.1.0 SR1, not for entire Global Configuration hierarchy from GCM WebUI.Business users would like to have this feature implemented there, too.

Ability to share GCM process template via parent/consumer project area model

Why useful? In EWM , as per below guidelines, you can configure EWM consumer project area to inherit process template from EWM Parent project area. the same capability does not exist in GCM tool set EWM process sharing guidelines help link: https:...

Possibility to link a work item under the Links option of a global config stream

Go to a global configuration stream, edit the stream and try to add Links to it. (see screenshot) Currently there is only possibility to add a release option from one EWM project area. More practically, the user shall be able to link to a work ite...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration

Cross Instance Linking should be handled

Cross Instance Linking across applications is very common in real time purposes. But with Global Configuration Management, this is not possible, which is a major blocker in real time scenarios
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration

Inherit "Release links" from parent GC for PGC

When working in config enabled world, we always use changesets to make changes in DNG streams. As you are usually working in a GC context, the tool then automatically switches to your personal global stream. If you need to have links to work items...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration

Improve usability / messaging for users when attempting to "save" personal GC with "Missing Configuration" items.

Would like to see a usability improvement for users taking an action that would result in saving their personal GC with "Missing Configuration" items, which the system prevents. Currently, it is not very clear that this situation is why the system...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration

Provide a REST API to retrieve history of a Global Configuration Component, Stream or Baseline

For security audit purposes and others it may be necessary to retrieve information about what changes have been made in a GC component, baseline or stream along with-user id making the change -date/time change made

Enable (patch / auto / manual) deletion of personal GC stream that is not being used

Currently users are left with orphaned personal GC stream after they deliver the changeset that has created the stream. So the changeset is removed from GC but the stream is not which results of a forest effect of personal-GC-Streams. The issue is...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management Not under consideration