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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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Document Builder should support ETM local streams or it should not list ETM local streams

Document Builder supports local configurations for DNG/RM. It does not support local configurations for ETM. However, ETM local configurations/streams are listed in the UI just as they are for RM/DNG. Selecting a local ETM streams cause the Docume...

upload report template to PUB via URL

It is possible to download an template from PUB by putting an URL into a browser. e.g. following URL will download template#5: http://<server>:<port>/rpeng/api/templates/5?action=download Unfortunately our reports are developed in RPE ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Not under consideration

UX: Ensure User Input Variable Support with "Generate Later"

Currently, under Reports, there is a column: Generate Therein, are 2 icons/options: Generate Document; Generate Later.Generate Later, does NOT provide any of the necessary User Input screens for the User to provide the necessary values of key vari...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Future consideration

Upload template and all referenced templates from the Publishing Client to Document Builder

Currently the only way to develop templates is to use the publishing client. The publishing client works of files on the file system. To migrate any template so that is available in Document Builder you must use a separate process to upload the in...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

Maximo Dataloader: Skip on empty rows / columns

Excel files for data load often contain comments in additional column on the right. Thoses columns shouldn't be considered for import. Hence, when Maximo Data Loader processes an Excel file it would be helpfull if an empty column will tell the loa...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Civil 0 Future consideration

On a WO activity, which includes a linear asset, please show the linear values on the task

Being the Maximo SME, the AOM, the Technician et al, I need to be able to see linear values also on my tasks, so that it is clear to me where on our facilities I should go and do my work.
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Civil 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to upload a template and have all dynically referenced templates be uploaded with it (inlcuding updating the dynamic references)

Currently we have to manually deploy 20+ templates from the local file system to the document builder server, then update the main template dynamic references to point to the new locations on the server. Each update takes approx 5 minutes to compl...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

Search for users by name, not ID

In every other part of ELM, a user is searchable by their name (not just their ID). In our organisation, user IDs are just a series of 8 numbers, i.e. 12345678 making it very difficult to share assets reports and documents with specific people. Th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

Group By Default

When viewing assets on a large scale Document Builder deployment, there are many assets to organise. Defaulting to a flat list is not the best approach as it would require the user to know they can manually group assets using an additional UI elem...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

Maximo Data Loader: Change user/password for Tomcat server

Login to Maximo Data Loader is defaulted to maxloader/maxloader. Changing to a differrent user/password is not working on the ROHS installation. Having mutiple Maximo Loader application installed(one for each SME) will open a security hole as anyo...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Civil 2 Is a defect