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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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Adding streams to code review gives no context to which project the stream belongs to

Refer to Case number TS002034008-Adding streams to code review gives no context to which project the stream belongs to
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 5 Future consideration

Command for ignoring white space in RTC

As we have an option to ignore white space in eclipse and visual studio clients during comparing file in RTC source control, expecting an option for the same using command-line interface. The SCM teams automated the merge operations using the comm...
over 3 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

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

Create an exclude pattern for autolock

In the stream you can (de)select the autolocking for files. This means, when files are autolocked, the question pops up whether you want to lock the file when starting to edit. When there is no autolock you can start editing straight away.The auto...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 0 Future consideration

Preserve the component flow scope between different workspaces or defining the configuration at workspace/stream level or exporting the selection for reuse.

I would like to have a feature that creating a workspace for different streams with the same components present in both the streams. Use case: Defines the scope of components for a stream from the workspace. When a new workspace is created using a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Support Pattern for ExcludeFilter in load rules

Only name is currently supported for excludefilter in load rules. Support for pattern also needed in exclude filter. Eg: <excludeFilter> <filter name ="_src"/> ( Present ) <filter patern ="*src"/> ( Missing ) </excludeFilter>
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Component filter option shall be available while creating snapshot

Users has to go through all the components and select required in order to create a snapshot for a particular set of components . It's better if there is a search tab while creating a snapshot so that user can filter out component based on name or...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

additional use cases for customized attributes in EWM SCM: JRS report on customized attributes

Current situation: As a user, it is not possible currently to select the custom attribute in the condition field of JRS.Request: As a user, I shall be able to report on custom attribute, which are set to the change set and to the files.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

ALM to Prevent empty comments after a change set is delivered

ALM should prohibit user empty comments after a change set is delivered
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration