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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

keep Caption together with table/figure

In PUB 7.1 the caption of a figure is printed above the figure. If the figure does not fit on the current page while printing it moves to the next page. Request: Printing of captions for figures and also for tables should be printed together with ...
2 days ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Submitted

Readability enchancement for external variables

Context : More users use or will use Document Builder as the main tool for publishing specifications instead of the thick client. The templates have a lot of external variables which values they can change, and some users have ten or more modules ...
15 days ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability Future consideration

allow run without GUI

Generation of documentation extracted from Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB) should be possible also without using of GUI. In most common CI/CD product all steps (including document generation) need to be managed based on scrip...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Launcher Future consideration

Add a Column to Results Table: Connection

From a Report definition perspective, the Data Source Connection is a key differentiator between differing implementations of the Template for execution. Having this information provided in the Results Table would greatly aid Users in identifying ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability Future consideration

Proposal to Simplify iFix Upgrade Process for PUB with Direct WAR Patch Deployment

I would like to propose an improvement to the current iFix upgrade process in the Publishing Document Builder. Currently, upgrades require a side-by-side installation, which involves installing a new instance, copying necessary files, and then uni...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Installation Future consideration

Provide queue for generated report

There are some milestones in the projects where a bunch of documents have to be generated in a relative short time frame. We observed that if report generation has been started and the number of total jobs has been reached then all additional repo...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Planned for future release

Ability to set column headings and number of columns dynamically

Standard RPE usage is to build a table header row, then iterate through data and build rows one at a time. This usage assumes I, as the template author, no exactly how many columns I will have in my table before I build the table. The out of the b...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

Graphically show inactive containers

Sometimes I'll be working on a complex template and due to how RPE works with its various queries and subqueries I want to start over and rebuild things. However I don't want to lose my current work. So I'll take a container and set its condition ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio Future consideration

Doc Builder Module Picker for DOORS Next should allow selection of Views

When a user is in an ETM test plan and they go to link the test case to the requirement collection, ETM will allow them to not only select a module, but instead to select a view within that module. This same OSLC picker needs to be implemented wit...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Future consideration

Unify Connection Creation Interface in Document Builder with the Rest of ELM Tools

Hello, The current experience for creating and selecting connections in Document Builder is not aligned with the user interface and workflow used across the rest of the ELM applications (RM, ETM, etc.). Specifically: Creating a connection requires...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder Not under consideration

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