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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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Project Areas for Document Builder

As an Application administrator I want to organize Document Builder in projects areas so I can manage user access or create team areas like other Jazz Applications (RM, ETM, EWM, ...) Context : When using Document Builder I have to configure a pub...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 3 Needs more information

Support more browser languages than only English in PUB

The end users have a possibility to use their own native language; the technical staff would avoid a lot of frustration during the installation of the application.

Selection list for stylesheets when starting report generation

We have a set of standard reports which are used for several projects. Most of them using the same stylesheet which for example have the same Logo and language specific attirbutes (page number, Signatures, ...). The idea here is: 1) We create an o...

UX: Ensure User Input Variable Support with "Generate Later"

Currently, under Reports, there is a column: Generate Therein, are 2 icons/options: Generate Document; Generate Later.Generate Later, does NOT provide any of the necessary User Input screens for the User to provide the necessary values of key vari...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Future consideration

Upload template and all referenced templates from the Publishing Client to Document Builder

Currently the only way to develop templates is to use the publishing client. The publishing client works of files on the file system. To migrate any template so that is available in Document Builder you must use a separate process to upload the in...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

new field for versioning Assets in Document Builder

current situation: If an report is executed in the Document Builder and a document gets generated then it is not documented which dta file version, which word template version and - if used - which javascript library versions were used to gener...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 9 Future consideration

upload report template to PUB via URL

It is possible to download an template from PUB by putting an URL into a browser. e.g. following URL will download template#5: http://<server>:<port>/rpeng/api/templates/5?action=download Unfortunately our reports are developed in RPE ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Not under consideration

Need to be able to upload a template and have all dynically referenced templates be uploaded with it (inlcuding updating the dynamic references)

Currently we have to manually deploy 20+ templates from the local file system to the document builder server, then update the main template dynamic references to point to the new locations on the server. Each update takes approx 5 minutes to compl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

Use user-friendly Combobox as input for external Variables

The use of combo boxes as input for external variables would be a modern and customer-friendly variant to adjust various parameters during document generation. On the one hand, static values should be allowed there and on the other hand, dynamic v...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Not under consideration

Search for users by name, not ID

In every other part of ELM, a user is searchable by their name (not just their ID). In our organisation, user IDs are just a series of 8 numbers, i.e. 12345678 making it very difficult to share assets reports and documents with specific people. Th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration