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add in EWM SCM Advanced Search also the info the Stream where the component is used

Current behavior: in Advanced search, you can see only the project area that contains the component in the name tab. if you have a component with the same name in different Streams belong to the same PA, the results given by Advanced Search is con...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Replace "My Workspaces" with "My Repository Workspaces" label in IDz

There is an incoherence of term "Workspace" and "Repository Workspace" between IDz and plugin EWM of Visual Studio. In the access path of IDz Team Artifact view > My Source Control > [Repository Name] > "My Workspaces", when right-clickin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Is a defect

Links to files or folders under EWM source control shall become meaningful readable.

In the Web UI, you may browse down to a file under SCM. The link shown includes no meaningful information about the file, e.g., the path and file name. It shows only IDs. If you want to reference this file somewhere, e.g., in a mail or document, y...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Code Review diff using wrong versions for comparison

The current design has taken into account multiple code review cycles effective v7.x since each Code Review cycle is now numbered i.e Code Review Cycle 1, Code Review Cycle 2, and so on. Therefore on the same logic the current Code Review diff com...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with role/permissions controll

Actual the custom attribute function do not have any permission controll, not for an adminitrator who define these attributes, nor for the end user who set the attribute values. SCM custom attributes should be managed similar to work item attribut...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with attribute data type of enumeration

Actual the custom attribute function only supports attribute based on the data type String. This sould be enhanced with other attribute data types as: Enumeration, with the option to create a specific enumeration value list. Customers in the Syste...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Permissions behavior with EWM in Linux

For example, I have a script in Linux with permissions of 755. I checked it in, Steve accepted my change, and on his side he does not have the same permissions. It appears that RTC only saves one set of permissions, I assume the "public" permissio...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Stream creation time stamp

As developer or team lead i expect a version control tool to report to me the EWM stream creation date at a quick glance i.e right click on stream and the properties to show the stream creation date
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

Implement request: expanding encountered keywords in loaded text files also should be possible in Shell- and Eclipse-Client

Hello EWM_SCM Admins / Specialists, Source: Case TS015421258: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002qrnkbAAA/lscm-load-expandkeywords-how-does-this-work-in-shell-client?language=en_US In ASCII text files, that are loaded into a sandbox, i...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration

SCM - Check if a Stream or Component name is unique

Current situation: If a new stream or component in SCM will be created SCM does not check if the same stream or component name already exists in the PA. This could lead to confusion for the SCM users. Required situation/Proposal: It is requested t...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration