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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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 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.
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

[IDz] Merge window: Button Current Change from Right to Left (or Left to Right) should be deactivated once clicked

In the merge window of IDz, after clicking on the button "Copy Current Change from Right to Left (or Left to Right)", we can see the modification in two editors. However this button is still there and clickable if we don't save. In the case of add...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

option to ignore Cobol sequence numbers on the SCM web UI

When comparing Cobol sources in the EWM SCM web UI in the browser, and sequence numbers were either removed or reordered between the compared versions, the comparison shows all the lines as being modified just because of these sequence number chan...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Should allow to query workitems containing comma(,) in workitem summary

Looking at the current behaviour, a comma delimited list is inferred as an "OR", so in your case, just searching for ',' will be interpreted as "" OR "" which is everything. There is no way that query searches for summary having just the comma. Pl...
30 days 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

CLM Filter option and layout improvement in Dashboard

In EWM, every release we have to create the queries almost similar which display the data based on Release (Found In) value. Those queries need to display on dashboard but for every release we need to create a widget based on Release so due to tha...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add support for C dependency where #include is not followed by a space

In EWM Enterprise Extension, some C dependencies might be missing on the source code data editor, for example when included through a directive like #include<stdio.h> or #include"test". It works with directives like #include "test2" so with ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute.

A particular work item query takes 15-30 seconds in EWM when a work item type has 100 custom attribute. The cause of slowness in work item query is the following 2ms( for attributes check) * 118 (attributes) * 50 row = 11800ms = 11.9 sec. Please t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration