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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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I am requesting that PUB must be able to generate reports from DOORS showing "Validate By" links with ETM

It is useful because customers will not be able to see their links in their reports if this capabilitie is not fixed
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future 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...

Provide basic version control of template/reports assets

It is important that we know which template generated a report. It would be ideal if each version of the template that is uploaded to document builder maintained a version number. Added to this there should be an ability to switch to a version of ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Future consideration

Usage of PUB scrips in RPE by scriptname and not by ID

If you are going to use javascript from PUB (assets --> scripts) in RPE the you can add a javascript with content similar to that: <Script src= "library://api/scripts/104"></Script>. Unfortunately you have to use the key instead of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 6 Future consideration

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...

External boolean Values as Checkbox in RPENG

Hello to all, for documents that use external variables of type Boolean there are two different representations. In DNG they are displayed as a checkbox. In the RPE or also in the RPENG they are shown as string (true/false). It would be great if t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 3 Future consideration

Improvement to Excel output from Publishing

In the Excel output generated from Publishing, the images are floating and the table will spread across multiple columns and rows. Thus the Excel export from Publishing is not really useful. It will be good if the images and tables from DNG (or ET...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 2 Future consideration

External Variable type/kind for Document Builder should allow other type then String

When defining external variable for RRDG we can refer to:https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RRCCustomRRDGReportsConfigurations I want the equivalent for Document Builder.Is there a way to have other format then String for the user to enter, like ...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 4 Future consideration

RPE template comparison function

RPE template comparison function is missing. When editing an existing RPE Template (.dta), or reviewing an evolution, it is impossible to highlight changes since previous version or differences with other templates.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 3 Future consideration

Configure timeout for REST datasource

Whenever a REST call GET is made on a REST datasource, there is a fixed timeout of 5 minutes. Some database do not always answer within 5 minutes, eg.g. some GET to ETM Feeds might take significantly longer.The Timeout for GET on REST datasources ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 1 Future consideration