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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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Usability

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A mechanism for comparison/update of PA project properties must be provided

Current behavior: ETM does not provide a mechanism to compare and update PA project properties. Requested change: A corresponding mechanism shall be provided. Further observations/information: Use case: We have a generic template project, and we w...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Changes related to the PA project properties must be traceable

Current behavior: Changes related to ETM project properties are currently not visible e.g., in the project history. Requested change: It is required that all PA project property changes can be clearly identified (e.g., which, who and when) and vis...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Check if a Stream name is unique

Current situation: If a new stream in ETM will be created ETM does not check if the same stream name already exists in the PA. This could lead to confusion for the ETM users. See attachment. Required situation/Proposal: It is requested that ETM ch...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Missing history information when duplicating an ETM artefact to another PA

Current situation: If a Test Case gets duplicated to another PA the newly created Test Case does not include the source PA/Stream information. Required situation/Proposal: It is requested that the newly created Test Cases (or in general ETM artefa...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Transfer changes of artifacts performed in a process conform way (i.e., not violating any preconditions) to a child stream.

Description: Currently, the Preconditions & Follow-up Actions (especially: “Disallow Saving of Test Cases with State Approved or Retired”) prevents to transfer changes of an artifact from a parent to a child stream, although the changes where ...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Improve grouping of items when groups are larger than one page

When I group items and a group of items goes over several pages, the contained items are hidden, when the group is collapsed. However, the following groups are not pushed up, so there are now several blank pages under the collapsed group heading b...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Update the Test Team section so that it can record the test team of the effort for historical purposes; make use of the current functionality and more

The Test Team section can be extremely useful. It pulls in the team members currently loaded within a QM Test Team so that everyone involved in testing is listed within the plan. This is really great functionality. However, when the members of th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

In ETM the SCM linked field is called Related files in a Test Case but Linked files in search query.

Current behavior: In ETM the field that shadows the linked files from EWM SCM is called "Related files" inside a Test Case, but in the view of all Test Cases it is called “Linked files”. Requested change: The naming convention should be consistent...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Filtering for EWM CCM related files and linked work items not possible in ETM

Current behavior: In an ETM query you have the columns "Linked files" and “Tests Development Items” visible, but you do not have any option to filter for it, so there is no possibility to search for artefacts with linked/related files or work item...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

in a Test Case the history information for the SCM linked artefacts and CCM work items are missing

Current behavior: You can create links from a work item or a file in SCM to ETM Test Case. If the link to the work item is created or removed from the Test Case side, this information appears in the Test Case history. If you do the same from EWM s...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration