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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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 6 Needs more information

The HTML report created by the autogenerated PUB templates needs to open with the Table of contents collapsed and not expanded.

When generating an HTML report in Rhapsody using the Publish feature to autogenerate a template the resulting HTML opens with all parent sections expanded. This makes large models difficult to explore.
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 1 Under review

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 ...
2 months 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).
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Installation 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...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 4 Not under consideration

upload report template to PUB via URL

It is possible to download an template from PUB by putting an URL into a browser. e.g. following URL will download template#5: http://<server>:<port>/rpeng/api/templates/5?action=download Unfortunately our reports are developed in RPE ...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Not under consideration

Need to be able to upload a template and have all dynically referenced templates be uploaded with it (inlcuding updating the dynamic references)

Currently we have to manually deploy 20+ templates from the local file system to the document builder server, then update the main template dynamic references to point to the new locations on the server. Each update takes approx 5 minutes to compl...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

ELO-PUB has bloated dta files which need cleaning up when a data source is removed from the template

When a datasource is added to the template it stored the xsd schema associated with it in the DTA file. When the datasource is removed it does not cleanup the xsd schema files and over time the DTA size grows. We have many examples of files which ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Performance 1 Future 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...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Future consideration

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