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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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Use a cache to prevent unnecessary loading of dynamic referenced templates

Developing ELO-PUB templates can be slow at the best of times however we breakup our templates into libraries of templates so they can be maintained apart. We use dynamic referencing of templates in our master template. Each time the template is l...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Performance 3 Future 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 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Master page properties "header from top" and "footer from bottom" should be able to take value from variable or script

In RPE Studio 6.0.6, master page "header from top" and "footer from bottom" properties cannot be variables, unlike top margin for example. We should be able to use external variables to specify these values, or why not, a script.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to create reports using ELM for Git commit data.

We have links in ELM between Git commits and RTC work items. Currently, there is no way to generate even basic reports on any Git information. Having this ability is highly valuable for analysis purposes.
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Please investigate using less JVM heap than 10-20 times report size in future versions of Aspose API

This is useful in general, as larger reports do not suddenly fail due to requiring unexpected magnitudes of JVM heap. It would make the generation of MS Word and PDF reports much more manageable. This is especially useful for customers who have ED...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Optional newline after a Page Break element if followed by a paragraph element

When a Paragraph element immediately follows a Page Break element, an extra newline is added after the page break. One possible solution around this is to place the Page Break inside the following Paragraph element, however this isn't always possi...

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 3 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 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 3 Future consideration

Access to Doors OSLC Requirements with Rational Document Builder

We generate a Report with which lists the Object Identifier and Text of DOORS Requirements. To avoid use the doors-client on the server, we want to access the DOORS requirements using DOORS OSLC interface. According to Support, there is no officia...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 1 Not under 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 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Not under consideration