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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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warn before launching a build with unresolved changes

New users don't always remember they need to check-in their changes before launching a personal build.Please add an optional warning message reminding the user they may want to check-in their changes when they launch a build of their loaded Reposi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Build 1 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Add autocomplete for @ mentions in a work item

Similar to the autocomplete of @ mentions in QuickPlanner, users woud like the ability to @ mention someone in the Work Item description or comments/discussion and have the option to autocomplete the user inline. This would improve usability and e...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

As is done in QM (ETM), being able to hide in the drop-down menu the possibility of creating certain work items

Useful for several reasons: For unused work items whose configuration is kept active in anticipation of a future deployment. When deploying a new version of the work item (V2 vs. V1), while keeping all the historical elements, and simply wanti...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / API 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Option to restrict users form replying to existing comments when workitem is in closed state

We are using a project area to capture work done in a compliance department. Since it is for this purpose the WI are treated as non-modifiable in "closed" state. Hence request an option to enable/disable the option to reply to an existing comment....
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Eliminate 'Overdue' approval notifications after the due date has been moved further and after approvals have been submitted.

My team created a custom work item that requires approvals within the workflow. For this specific case, initially the approvals were scheduled to be due for a certain date and seeing that the date was going to be moving further, the work item owne...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Future consideration

Feature "Move or Copy this Work Item to Another Project Area" copies the Work Item including the "comments" field.

We’ve noticed that when using the "Move or Copy this Work Item to Another Project Area" feature, the comments field is always copied along with the Work Item. While this may be useful in some cases, it doesn’t offer flexibility to users who may no...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Make all QuickPlanner boards visible to JazzAdmins

As a JazzAdmin, my users expect me to be able to assist them across all areas of the product. In most parts of the ELM suite having JazzAdmin permission gives me visibility across all user data. One area where this is inconsistent is for QuickPlan...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Prevent date type field to allow saving years with 3 digits. - Design Defect

Using IBM EWM, users can save date and time fields where the year contains only three digits. (e.g., changing 2025 to 202), the system still allows saving the work item. This results in an invalid date being stored. Steps to ReproduceOpen a work i...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration