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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

Allow users to set "Copied From" link on a work item

We have a user group who uses the "Create Work Item Copy" to spin off a copy of a work item to indicate it needs to be fixed in a different release/version of their code. Occasionally, a user will manually create a spin off work item without using...
2 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Submitted

Need add sorting feature to Work Item Queries widget

* EWM version: All version * Background info:The customer is using a widget with 'My Queries' on the dashboard to check the progress within the project daily.There are approximately 180 'My Queries' entries in use on the dashboard.While the querie...
7 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Submitted

Get integration with IBM Watson Orchestrate using Open API 3.0

Could you please confirm the following: Whether IBM ELM 7.0.3 provides REST APIs compatible with OpenAPI 3.0. Whether IBM Orchestrate can directly consume IBM ELM 7.0.3 services. Whether any additional middleware, API gateway, adapter, or custom d...

[EWM]: Ability to insert source code blocks in HTML fields

Context: EWM users would like to insert source code blocks within HTML fields in order to clearly distinguish regular text from code. This feature is essential for highlighting code excerpts across various types of work items. However, no native f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Submitted

Proposal to detach a WorkItem and associate another after the Discard of a Change Set by a dialog box

When a Change Set is Discarded, the associated Work Item remains associated. The requested improvement is as follows: after a Change Set is Discarded, a dialog box should appear offering the option to unlink a Work Item and link a new one in its p...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Not under consideration

Show all file versions / change sets in SCM web client

In the web client there is a limit of 100 versions, that you cannot increase. (the existing workaround is to use the Shell client or Eclipse client) The users want to to see all versions / change sets in the history in the web and to be able to op...

EWM SCM - create permission restrictions at folder level

Current behavior: Basic role can create folders, which goes against out SUP.8 Configuration Management process (control of storage and CIs); The folders should only be created by the Configuration Managers (min. extended access). In the data model...

Automatically prefill the current Work Item in progress when promoting from the original Stream to reduce unnecessary clicks

When promoting Work Items, users need to select the current Work Item in progress, which results in additional, unnecessary clicks. Automatically prefill the current Work Item during promotion will streamline the workflow, making the process more ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability Submitted

Immutable Storage Paths for Attachments in Workitems

As the ELM database is not intented to store big workitem attachments, an option is to use an external file storage. The path to the storage can be only defined once. It is also not possible to switch back to the database as a storage location for...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items Submitted

Allow adding a descriptive comment/reason when locking files in EWM SCM

Current behavior: In IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) SCM, when a file is locked, other users can see the lock owner, but they cannot see the reason why the file was locked. For example, when another user attempts to unlock or modify a lo...