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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Links between EWM SCM and JIRA: filename visibility in JIRA linked change set

Hi,When we make a link between a version of one EWM SCM document and a JIRA issue, we see in the JIRA issue the name of the change set.It would be very useful to have a preview showing the name of the files modified by this change set when pointin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration

Allow to search for text in files stored in the SCM

The RTC SCM stores a lot of files in components and streams. Some of them are text files. We need to have a new search function in order to find text files stored in the SCM from a string pattern. It should be possible to parametrize the search wi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced "Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery" Deliver(server)" precondition

The "Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery" Deliver(server) precondition enabled does not appear to be designed practically for end user usage. The pre-condition should be allowed to be configured to just focus on impacted component o...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

Unlock folders in EWM SCM via Web UI

Solution:On Web UI there should be the possibility to unlock folders.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

Improve RTC Web - Support viewing of documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint ..) directly instead of download

Currently non-text files have to be downloaded in RTC-WEB and then opened from download area. Improve RTC Web - Support viewing of documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint ..) directly. Attributes for the files are already available in RTC-SCM: e.g. fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Add folder information in which a stream is located

In a EWM Project area, there are many many streams (around 50). The streams are listed in the "All Streams" category in the EWM client. The user has created many many folders and some of streams have been added in a folder but not all. To retreive...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Hide "Associate Change Request" functionality if prerequisites for usage of the function are not given

In EWM, link types are only available when they can actually be used. For example "Tracks Requirement" is only visible, if there is an associated RM project area. In SCM, this is not the case for the link type "Associate Change Request". This lin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

SCM> Webview & Download Icons

We would like to know if there are any options available to rearrange the icons in an SCM file page. The page has list of icons like lock & download, download, upload, edit etc. The users are using the lock & download icon by mistake as it...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 0 Future consideration

Make the unique identifier for baselines visible to users in all clients

There is no currently unique identifier for baselines. Thus they can repeat and be skipped for reasons that the developers cannot explain. Therefore we need a unique identifier to verify unique baselines. (The PMR number field would not accept the...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

Baseline Id is not unique, sequential, required, or verified

The baseline ID is system generated. We thought the baseline IDs were unique, sequential, required, and verified. But they are not according to IBM development who met with us on this issue. IBM explained that there was no requirement to make the ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration