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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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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

Possibility to embed images in description and comments

Embedded images in description and comments would enable to see their contents in their specific textual context without needing to download or preview the contents and thus enhance the user experience.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Delivered

EWM Integration with Visual Studio Code

The current integration is with Visual Studio. Most developers are using Visual Studio Code. This integration would increase adopters to EWM.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations Delivered

Auto-populated Owned By and Filed Against fields when creating Work Item

When creating a Work Item, it is essential to first choose the Project Area. We suggest that the fields Owned By and Filed Against be automatically populated. The Owned By field should reflect the author of the Work Item, while the Filed Against f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control Delivered

delete all output registered in buildmaps

SVB is a governemental orginizations, that serves all 17 mil. Dutch citizens. Many billion euro's are concerned. We have to maintain strict security rules. One is that we need to keep a close connection between sources and executables. ELM has to ...

avoid polling z/OS build state from Jenkins

Problem:When triggering a RTC z/OS build from Jenkins using the IBM Build Toolkit, the build often finishes after 35 seconds, but since the Build Toolkit performs polling every 30 seconds, it misses its first chance by 5 seconds then wastes anothe...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions Delivered

Use a GitHub supported workitem pattern in git commit message

EWM supports following patterns in the Git commit message to denote a reference to a EWM workitem:workitem task rtcwi < Work Item ID> bug defect Based on the pattern, links to workitems get created and a browser extension (which is broken me...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Delivered

Compare single files from the RTC web interface

Currently in the Eclipse client for example we can:- from a stream, click Show Repository Files - browse to a file- click Compare With, then choose a baseline, workspace/stream or snapshot On the web interface, we have "Compare with another reposi...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control Delivered

Please provide an up-to-date eclipse client (e.g. 4.36)

More and more customers are moving to other development environments because IBM ELM only supports the 4.23 eclipse client. We currently use / would like to use 3 different products that need improvement: EWM / RTC plainJava library - used to acce...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations Delivered

Add support for Interactive ISPF Gateway to RTC on z/os

RTC on z/os does not currently support the Interactive ISPF Gateway. Only the Legacy ISPF Gateway is supported and documented.The Legacy ISPF Gateway has been deprecated by ISPF and the push is to use the new Interactive.
about 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions Delivered

Allow to duplicate parent links during "Create Work Item Copy..."

I know there are two Enhancements about this: - https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=134862 - https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Delivered