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Enable email THREADING for EWM Work Item Emails

It is our opinion that ENGEWM-I-388 was closed due to a lack of understanding of the request. EWM currently allows "Aggregate Same Work Item Changes in a Single Email" which is not the function requested (although quite helpful) Function requested...
over 1 year 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)...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries

A competitive tool has the possibility to use sub-queries as conditions in queries. This feature is frequently used to structure more complex queries hierarchically. Common sub-queries can be reused in different queries.Currently EWM does not prov...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Harmonize Using wildcards in filter fields

In a Workflow Item --> Picklist "Planned For" --> sub menu with "3 blue dots" it is possible to combine wildcard filters like "*SP*20". This Filter provides all Iterations which have "....SP....20..." somewhere in the name. --> see attach...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Future consideration

Separate Operation in RTC Process template to modify "Workitem Templates"

Current State: In Process template of RTC-CHM Project Area, “Modify Process Specifications” includes Changes to role definitions, permissions assigned to roles, operation behavior (preconditions and follow-up actions), iterations, configuration da...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Create a expand keyword to control the versionId of additional document formats such as Word files

We know that there are expand keywords that can be used with the scm load command in order to print in the file the version provided by the source control tool when it is downloaded. However, the specific expand keyword $VersionId$ only works for ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 4 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow changing the default list of columns displayed in new queries

When you create a new query it displays the below column list by default.   Type  Id  Summary  Owned By  Status  Priority  Severity  Modified Date This list needs to be edited for every new query, however. Customers are asking for how to control t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs.

Attribute Customization Logs contain too many exceptions, which affects the readability of logs. Therefore, you can save the logs to a single log file to avoid interference by log4j.
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

EWM Eclipse - Add option for opening the location of a file in file explorer

The behavior of what "Open Local File" opens, how and if it can be saved is not predictable for a user and he will always assume it opens in a way it can be saved as well, but sometimes it is not saved correctly. Several colleagues already have lo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 5 Not under consideration