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Component Tagging

In big companies, EWM (formerly named RTC) is used in mixed domains of development. A Project Area may contain different components of different platforms, programming languages, ... Therefore, developers can easily make mistake when selecting, op...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future 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
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

Be able to work on different versions of a stream without redoing a load

We need an improvement on EWM 6.0.6 for Eclipse. We have components in different version of a stream (see image Capture1.jpg). Sometimes we need to work on 2 versions at the same time (ex TSBD_6.0 and TSBD_DEV). We create 2 repository workspace. W...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration

enhance settings for EWM SCM create snapshot, influence GC create baseline

Provide an advanced server property to control the default behavior for the operation EWM SCM "Create snapshot" for a stream and the option "Create new baselines, even for unchanged components". The setting would be used to provide a default: in t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Improve effectiveness of Change Explorer in Visual Studio

Currently the Change Explorer View in Visual Studio does not match the effectiveness of the view seen in Eclipse. In Visual Studio: All Components are shown in the tree, even those without changes, therefore the user needs to click on a component ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Binary Compare should display comparison of binary data and not be restricted to text compare

When invoking compare for binary files, the binary differences are not displayed by the Binary Compare, instead the following message is displayed: First bytes differ at position NNNN Switch to Text Compare using the drop down menu above Reporting...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Comparison of different repository files using external compare tool

External Compare tools can be utilized when comparing different versions of the same file, however if two different files are selected in repository files view for compare, it is currently only possible to use the internal compare capability which...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

"Check-in and Associate Workitem..." in Eclipse client

"Check-in and Associate Workitem..." is available in the RTC extension for Visual Studio but not in the RTC plug-ins for the Eclipse client. This action would be useful in Eclipse too in order to quickly associate a workitem while doing a check-in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

Creating links from commit comments - Not able to configure or change the expected keyword

Currently RTC could parse the the information of a work item from a GitHUb enterprise commit message in following manner: workietm 1234 work item 1234 we wanted to change this to workitem-12345 or some other variant. So we need your help to ident...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Organize components in streams in folders

Hello, At the moment in the Team Artifacts view, when a stream is expanded all components in this stream are immediately shown underneath. But when an integration stream has many components coming from different applications, we would like to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration