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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Excel & Word Import

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Ability to use an "RTC/EWM" like web interface to import steps in to RQM

As a consultant, I am experiencing more and more "IT Desktop lockdowns" of SW on user's Desktops. Asking for the ability to install and Excel/Word plugin for imports has not been a welcome request for "a specific type of customer". Most have denie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

As a user, I want to use ETMExcelImporter to link existing timeline/iteration to Test Plan's schedule

In ETM project area, we already have Timeline/iterations defined. We can setup TestPlan schedule by adding these iterations. We are using ETM ExcelImporter to batch create test artifacts including TestPlan, we want to use the tool to link existing...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Not under consideration

Please provide the feature to import child test plan by using Excel Importer

Please provide the feature to import a child test plan to IBM Engineering Test Manager by using Excel Importer. Currently Excel Importer does not support to link a master plan to a child test plan.
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Not under consideration

Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Make rich text sections CSV-exportable from custom query

The overall goal is to use the Excel & Word Importer to update existing test cases or test plans. To do so, it is necessary to write all categories, attributes and sections upon export to repository. Thus, this date needs to be exported from E...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Update test result with iteration by name instead of test phase id.

According to ticket TS009502923 I have to find test phase id in order to update test result with iteration. It should be able to select an iteration by test schedule name instead of test phase ID It's not practical for user to have to find test...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 3 Future consideration

ETM Excel Importer Error Message Needs to Provide Specifics that Should Include Child Items

ETM Excel Importer does not provide specifics for child item when it fails to import an artifact. For example importing a Test Case with undefined category value, the error message does not tell you the name of the Category. Confirmed that the fol...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Not under consideration