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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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new field for versioning Assets in Document Builder

current situation: If an report is executed in the Document Builder and a document gets generated then it is not documented which dta file version, which word template version and - if used - which javascript library versions were used to gener...

Configure timeout for REST datasource

Whenever a REST call GET is made on a REST datasource, there is a fixed timeout of 5 minutes. Some database do not always answer within 5 minutes, eg.g. some GET to ETM Feeds might take significantly longer.The Timeout for GET on REST datasources ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 1 Future consideration

If you install DOORS 9 on a different path than the default, the Document Studio (RPE) does not work properly, requiring manual modification of the configuration file. I suggest a enhancement on the installation wizard asking for the DOORS path.

It would be useful for the installation wizard to prompt for the DOORS path to avoid manual issues later, streamlining the process and enhancing the user experience with Document Studio (RPE).
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Installation 1 Future consideration

Provide basic version control of template/reports assets

It is important that we know which template generated a report. It would be ideal if each version of the template that is uploaded to document builder maintained a version number. Added to this there should be an ability to switch to a version of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Future consideration

RTF export from descriptions of Rhapsody model elements

I'm searchin a way to export the description of a use case from Rhapsody to Word using the PUB. A constraint what I have is not to use Word-Macros as these can contain viruses and are not allowed in our company. Therefore I need a solution to publ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 4 Not under consideration

Usage of PUB scrips in RPE by scriptname and not by ID

If you are going to use javascript from PUB (assets --> scripts) in RPE the you can add a javascript with content similar to that: <Script src= "library://api/scripts/104"></Script>. Unfortunately you have to use the key instead of ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 6 Future consideration

Allow customers who have PUB licenses to generate reports in DNG beyond 8GB heap restriction

This is useful because it would allow us to generate the configuration comparison report in DNG. We are not able to generate this report in DNG as we have a large number of changes, even for small project areas. For example, EDG would require abou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / EDG 1 Not under consideration

External boolean Values as Checkbox in RPENG

Hello to all, for documents that use external variables of type Boolean there are two different representations. In DNG they are displayed as a checkbox. In the RPE or also in the RPENG they are shown as string (true/false). It would be great if t...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to jobs API of RPENG to have more meta information

Currently the /api/jobs API gives information of all the jobs along with the job results of each job.As of today, there is no information about the connection details and template details along with the template variables that can be identified fr...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 3 Not under consideration

Use user-friendly Combobox as input for external Variables

The use of combo boxes as input for external variables would be a modern and customer-friendly variant to adjust various parameters during document generation. On the one hand, static values should be allowed there and on the other hand, dynamic v...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Not under consideration