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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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When accepting the update, you can choose whether the modification time of the file is the current time or the time of the repository.

In the pending change view, accept updates. The modification time of the files in the sandbox is the current time, not the repository time. for example: 1,developer zhangsan modified 1.txt and deliver to EWM at 2025.3.17 10:00,developer lisi load ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Code review workflow must be consistent across code review cycles.

Currently the Code Review cycles are not consistent. The 1st Code Review cycle and subsequent Code Review cycles steps are ambiguous, the IBM documentation is also inaccurate as per skills Case xx4370. End users have to log into multiple interface...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

It would be useful to be able to gracefully break processing in code when bad conditions are detected rather than continue on until critical failure hiding where the issue occured.

There is a lot of error checking that can be done which would allow us to gracefully exit processing with a useful message rather than continue process until some component fails due to the bad conditions. A stop all processing function or a uniqu...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 6 Future consideration

ELO PUB should have the ability to install Eclipse Extension from the market place or other repositories.

ELO Pub as of IFix005 now does not support Javascript.. its major language because of limits in delivery licensing. PUB is already quite limited in that it does not allow external plugins to be installed. Allowing external plugins would allow user...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 3 Future consideration

Microsoft Word Content Controls Handling

RPE/PUB is able to generate old “Document Properties” of Microsoft Word (of *.doc) but it doesn’t support yet the new “Content Controls” (of *.docx) or the Custom XML. Is there a way to create/fill a “Content Control” or “XML Attribute” by means o...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 7 Future consideration

Export out tables views in Rhapsody through the RMM API

Currently you can't nicely export out table views on the module explorer through the RMM API onto a document. This is important as this reduces the automation of generating customer documents through document builder.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 7 Not under consideration

Add error handler for ignored Data Source Configuration and Invalid Data Errors

Add an Error Handler for Ignore Data Source Configuration Errors -> trueand Ignore Invalid Data Errors -> truewithin elements in the template, so that context dependent messages can be printed into the log *and* into the generated document t...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 4 Future consideration

add Properties view back in menu of component and baseline to see the UUID of artifact

Before v7.0.2 we were able to view "properties" of a component or a baseline in EWM to see the UUID. Why it has been deleted in 7.0.2? This is usefull for users in Eclipse client.
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

These "System Attributes" supporting the Code Review should be created automatically when an EWM project is enabled with code review

Design Issue: These "System Attributes" supporting the Code Review. Why should a Customer create these Attributes to be able to use the Feature? The Attributes should be created using activating an option introduced by an iFix etc. The customer mu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Formatting Output of SCM/LSCM

A nice feature to add to the scm/lscm command line tools would be the ability to format the output. We have a situation here that if you use this command: lscm -a n -u y list files -w <workspace name> -n <file name> you get three lines...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration