Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

Showing 269

When a change set in the EWM client is discarded without removing its link to the work item, the icon on the change set does not show that it has been discarded

Dear IBM, The context is the communication chain between Rhapsody10, EWM client 703 and EWM 7.0.3. When a change set in the EWM client is (just) discarded, without the link to the work item being removed, the changes are of course not sent to the ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Advanced logging of Work Item and Work Item Attachments accessed by users of the system

The GE Aerospace team has been required by the UK Government to provide individual access proof of Work Items in the Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) application. This is a Compliance requirement to be able to demonstrate that exports of info...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Show streams from the current project area by default

In the Eclipse EWM client, whenever we use actions like Compare With, Change Flow Target, Replace Baseline, etc. and we are asked to choose a stream, the stream selection window opens with a search field and either an empty list or a list of recen...
20 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Only run custom value providers on user specified dependencies

In setting up a customized value provider with a javascript based solution, you also define a list of dependencies (attributes) on the attribute for which a value is being calculated or validated by the value provider. It was discovered that in on...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Get Complete History of a Project Area

It can be usefeul to get the history of all the actions made on a specific project area including creation/deletion of work items, components, streams, baselines, snapshot. Right now it's possible to have the history of a Stream for exemple (from ...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Future consideration

[IDz]Modify the menu API to facilitate the modification right click's menu

There are many menus in the IDz that need to be customized. However, this is a tough task. In order to customize the menu, actually, we need to go inside the standard EWM and Eclipse source code to find out the concerned XML, classes. We can list ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 4 Future consideration

In Product Backlog view, Work item hierarchy is not showing when we search for particular work item

In plans when we click on Product backlog view, it shows the list of work items hierarchy for e.g. we have following work items Epic -> Feature -> Plan Summary -> Feature -> PLM Milestone and Story, Similar way we have multiple work it...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Add EWM SCM TRS feeds for traceability between work items and file versions

Use Case: Customer stores document files in EWM SCM components and tracks their progress using work items. In the application, the traceability between the work item and the file is created via the change set. In the application they are able to f...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 1 Future consideration

Allow custom coloring of the entire Quick Planner card

In the EWM native planning feature, a Kanban plan view allows a user to configure colors for the kanban cards. In QuickPlanner, you can add colored tags, but there is no way to set the whole card to a certain color based on user defined conditions...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Future consideration