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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Enable email threading for EWM Work Item Emails

For active users of EWM, a significant number of work item emails are generated. Users would like emails sent by EWM to support a message ID in the email header to allow mail clients to thread the messages in their inbox.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Sort end Export in search result view for list of entities using each language definition

Searching for object dependencies with the system definition reference search on z/OS In the search result v iew of the References to all the Language Definitions, I get a list of entities (Programs, Screen, Maps, Copybook, DDL ….) for each Langua...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Managing Subset Folders in a Project Area

It would be useful to be able to create and manage Subset Folders in a Project Area. We would like to separate the Subsets according to the application they refer to. I think that more search criteria would be useful. Actually we can only find sub...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Contributor search result for workitem's Owned by attribute should be restricted to those who belong to the project area

In EWM version 7.0.2,when I search contributors for Owned by attribute using the traditional search function, search result includes users who do not belong to the project area. So I can choose those users. This is not good for security because EW...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Allow ranking in a Quick Planner Work Board

Users like the flexibility of a Work Board in quick planner which allows custom lanes that are not always based on Iteration, but would also like to be able to apply ranking to the lanes as they can in the Plan Board type.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Custom color for custom group for Widget Work Item Statistics

Use case: I would like to have a pie chart to display Open vs Closed Work Items Defect with red color for Open group and green color for Closed group on the widget Work Item Statistics. Current situation: I have added a widget Work Item Statistics...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Please add shortcut keys to the Engineering Workflow Management Shell

We make use of shortcut keys in the Web UI and in Eclipse, but we cannot find any for the Shell client. Engineering Workflow Management keyboard shortcuts https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.3?topic=reference-engineering-workflow-management-keyboa...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow "Due Date" permissions to be separated by work item type

For our processes here at Paccar, we want to restrict the due date attribute from being modified for one particular work item. There are a couple of reasons for this: "Due Date are used to create burnup chart and it’s a single measure to make sure...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

[IDz/Project Explorer] Expand automatically the Component folders option in Preferences

When opening IDz or creating new Repository worspace, we see that all the component folder are collapsed. Developers have to open folder by folder and level by level to reach the wished files. It takes time and it is not efficient by doing this wa...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

[IDz/Pending Changes] Add Change Summary/Open in Change Explorer/ Associate Work Item / Remove Work Item in the Change set right click menu

In comparison between IDz client and EWM client for Visual Studio, we find out that some good functions of Visual Studio are not available in IDz client. They are the functions when we right click on the change set in Pending Changes view. These f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration