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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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Local files of different types should be opened in the windows default editor

When opening files within EWM Eclipse, the different types of files should be opened in a local application, or windows default application, instead of opening some of them in the internal viewer. Or at least, the tool should give you this option....
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support a configurable Widget catalog in EWM

DNG supports a configurable Widget Catalog (https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RMExtensionsInTheWidgetCatalog6061), but the other applications lack this feature.Purpose of this CR is to support a configurable Widget catalog for EWM (or all tools)...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Search box glitch - In EWM after work item is loaded focus should not be set to the summary field.

In EWM after work item is loaded the focus is always set to the summary field. This different than in ETM or ERM.With slow network connection following annoying behavior can occur:1) open a work item (e.g. duplicate browser tab of existing work it...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Increase size of upload area for attachments

The size of the drag & drop section to upload attachments for a workitem has decreased in size in > v. 7.0 which is confusing to users, especially since there is no error message in case of a miss.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Reporting Attribute-based and Non-Attribute based presentation details from EWM into RPE Template

Reporting Attribute-based and Non-Attribute based presentation details from EWM into RPE Template
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 8 Not under consideration

SCM Check-in and Deliver option does not provide option to link to a change request on another RTC server

Use case: Change sets from one RTC server to be linked to Change request from another RTC server. When "Check-in & Deliver" option is selected for checking in pending changes in the Eclipse Client, in the associate work item menu, it does not ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

RTC Query UI is not designed well

RTC Query UI is not designed well and doesn't utilize the entire available space in Query UI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Support ordering of work item approvals

This request is similar to this one raised in jazz.net:https://jazz.net/forum/questions/61309/can-you-specify-approval-order-for-work-item We have an approval flow and we would like to control approvals, so that approvals are not allowed out of or...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Remember Lock action in mass update

Sometimes we are doing mass updates on our RTC-managed source files. We have the option autolock (*.*) on the streams. When doing a mass replace we get prompted before overwriting a file. We can choose the option "Yes to All". Unfortunately after ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Better error messages to indicate out of tmp space or missing files

This request is to have better error logging or messages that actually help to determine what the problem is instead of having to decipher failure of many extraneous, but connected parts of z/os - such as language environment or ISPF or SYSLOG or ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration