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My ideas: IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Influence the order of lined work items (or at least sort them by work item id)

in case there are a lot of linked work items, those work items are not ordered in any way. The best solution would be to allow sorting by the users, but at least those work items should be sorted by work item id. Otherwise it is extremely difficul...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

The Plan shall offer the ability to link a query to display the information

Today the plan can only take Team name and the Iteration as input to pull the data. The idea over here is to add an ability to create a query and display that in a plan view. This will resolve the below restrictions: 1. Currently it can only pull ...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

New Command Line for getting the file version and modified date in a single command

I am using the SCM Command Line Interface to get specific file information and update them in an Excel sheet. Currently, to get the file version and the date it was updated, I use the following two command lines: Version Information - scm list fil...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Take into account ETM lab resource reservations in traditional plan scheduling

We are using the Formal Project Management process and traditional planning, as described here:https://jazz.net/library/article/657 We are trying to set up scheduling, but it automatically calculates and only takes into account the schedules of hu...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 0 Future consideration

Organize and maintain links and attachments separately based on the context in work item

If a work item has several links and attachments, it should be possible to organize them for improved readability. By using additional link sections, user should be able to organize links and attachments in specific link tabs (sections). Currently...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Parent workitem should resolve automatically if its child work items resolves.

Greetings, We have a requirement for parent work items should resolve if its associated child work items get resolved. Request you to consider this RFE, and help us with the requirement. Kind Regards, Gururaj
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Changes in ranks in plans need to be tracked and transparent

Users want to have an overview over a plan and the history of a plan (which items are added or removed, history of ranks etc). When several people are working on a plan and on the ranking (or people change ranks, eg via drag & drop unintention...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Make the modification of a plan rank visible in the changed work item

We use a product backlog plan for prioritization of our work items via ranks. To keep this process transparent and comprehensible we would like to trace changes of the work item rank e.g. within the work item history. Currently we see that the cha...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Please support Microsoft Project 2019 integration for importing and exporting plans

Currently IBM supports integration with MS Project 2007, 2010 and 2013. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.2?topic=projects-importing-exporting-plans-microsoft-project These versions are now quite old. We use MS Project 2019 and would like to us...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Ability to control the permission to add/edit Plan View

People mess up the plan view created and shared from the base project. there is no way to prevent the edit at the same time let the user creates the plans. Creation of plan is necessity but controlling the permission to modify an ecxisting plan vi...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration