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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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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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add as Spare Part to Asset Template

There's currently a checkbox in Item Master to add a part to the Asset's Spare Parts list when issued to a Work Order w/ an Asset. However, we are trying to manage our Assets' Spare Parts list via Asset Templates. It would make more sense that whe...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Flexible presentation options for editing custom string attributes in context of module views

Beside filling the primary text our users have additional custom attributes filled with meta data. There are also some text attributes, in some of them longer texts are stored.However, if the user wants to edit this custom text attribute inside th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG Reviews - Tag users on review comments

Reviewers should be able to mention other valid users who have permission to the reviews, on a comment, to direct specific comment to the user(s). @mentioning people who are part of a Review to direct a specific comment to them
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG Reviews - capability to select text and comment

Provide ability to select specific words/phrases from the artifact under review, such that the selected portion gets highlighted, and a “comment" dialog opens up where a Rich text comment can be added by the reviewer. The goal of this feature is t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Template Issues in Rhapsody in C++

When using RiC++ it is possible to create directed associations to instances of templates. When the equivalent link is created between the respective objects the directed association is not recognised. It is possible to create a new association in...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Modeling and UI 1 Future consideration

Add a field in the XML file so it is possible to se if Title is a generated title or not

Building reports for DNG with RPE Make a way to check if an artifact has a real title - or if the text in the title field is generated. I have some requirements writers filling in a title on some requirements - but not on all. Documents look reall...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

ELO-PUB has bloated dta files which need cleaning up when a data source is removed from the template

When a datasource is added to the template it stored the xsd schema associated with it in the DTA file. When the datasource is removed it does not cleanup the xsd schema files and over time the DTA size grows. We have many examples of files which ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Performance 1 Future consideration