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IBM Engineering - Reporting

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Hiding the warning on the Data Collection Component management screen

The following warning is displayed every time on the DCC management screen. <Warning message>"Data collection jobs that are running or scheduled to run from other data collection services that are connected to the same data warehouse as the ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Data Collection Component 1 Future consideration

Filtering on Trend and/or Live Data used by Reports

Implement a filtering possibility on trend vs. live data used by reports. For analytic purposes it would be very useful to identify the usage of trend data in reports. This facilitates the configuration and optimization of selectively saving trend...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to tie two (or more) stats to a date in current (not historical) reporting

Report Builder is limited on the attributes it can take on a historical report; it's possible to use more attributes on a current mode. IBM Engineers often recommend the use of fields (like tags) when proving out a concept or supplementing the too...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 3 Future consideration

Block / Postpone the Scheduled User Reports During Meta Model Refresh

Use Case : For Enterprise ELM Instances, Meta Model Refresh runs ~4h. This leads to Meta Model Refresh failures and User Reports will have inconsistency because there were scheduled JRS Reports running at the same time as Meta Model Refresh Soluti...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / JRS 1 Future consideration

create a target line with a decimal point in JRS

Currently, target lines can only be created as integers. A target line with a decimal point is required, and I would like to request improvements so that the target line can be created with a decimal point.
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 6 Future consideration

After adding JRS trend report to dashboard, allow to configure goal lines and date lines on dashboard

We are using JRS trend reports and would like to configure goal lines and date lines from dashboards using e.g. filters without going back to the JRS report to reconfigure these. But it seems that these lines do not get added as filters. For exam...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 1 Future consideration

Adopt application passwords for Excel live data feature to support JAS SAML authentication

Most rich clients in the ELM suite of products have now adopted JAS/SAML application passwords, since this is a very popular way for customers to authenticate in ELM since 7.0.2. Customers would like to refresh Excel data in Excel live reports, bu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 0 Future consideration

In the graph of time series data, it is ideal default setting of "Date Scale Calculation" is not "Sum total" but can be set to another setting.

We are using JRS reports to display time series data on a monthly basis. But the default setting of "Date Scale Calculation" is "Sum total", so if we want to see the "Last value" for each month, we have to change this setting. We have to change th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 3 Future consideration

JRS ( Report Builder) does not display the full hierarchy of the category from RTC - It shall be configurable in JRS or RTC

If we have 3-4 layers of the category (filed Against) in JRS, The JRS only displays two layers. I had an exchange with Fariz and learned that its designed that way to solve some performance issue. However, Fariz also suggested to proceed with the ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / JRS 1 Future consideration

Need possbility to link a Report with other ELM artifacts e.g. EWM Work Items

There shall be the possibility to link a report with an ELM Artifact. The report should be bi-directional. For EWM a related link or a resolves/resolved by!link is sufficient. Use-case: - link a development plan item e.g. Feature with the report w...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Reporting / Report Builder 1 Future consideration