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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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preserve the EWM/RTC check in Date/Timestamp

Case number TS016744050 Is a way to preserve the EWM/RTC check in Date/Timestamp when pulling the files from EWM/RTC using the Jenkins Source Pull Pipeline that loads the files into the CICD Build workspace prior to executing build scripts? Curren...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Modernize External Attachment Capability Since MS has Discontinued Support on WebDav Protocol

EWM (CCM) Advanced Properties has settings to store attachments on another server or attached drive. There needs to be another way to implement storing attachments on another server other than using Microsoft's WebDave protocol, which is now disco...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

To implement JSON format to get the data in a "Value Set" type script.

In our company, to integrate ELM and other data bases we are using the EWM scripts and in this scripts we call a webservice to obtain the data. Using this strategy we get the data in xml format. So, we read the xml and populate a field or list in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Enable Gitlab/Github flavor markdown

As a software developer, I am working with Gitlab/Github all the time and I found their version of Markdown support is way more productive than the traditional MS Word style formatting. Ever since we switched from Gitlab to EWM, all of our softwar...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

Allow users to download all files in a change set with a simple download gesture

Customers are not able to review files in the Web UI source control when they are MS Office type files such as *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx etc. They click on the change set link in a work item, and it takes them to source control in the Web UI showing ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Change "Last Updated" not for changes of Copyright Statement

The "Last Updated" in the Documentation should show when the content was updated. If the Copyright Statement is changed for a new Release, all Documentation pages get actually a new "Last Updated" Date.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Improve the subset creation transaction to prevent DB2 deadlock -913 error

Customer runs nightly builds and has developed a custom headless plugin calling APIs createBuildableSubsetFromWorkItems() and modifyBuildableSubset(). When 3 builds are run concurrently and creates 3 subset workitems on a large number of componen...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Many times, I get the id of a work item and I need to go track down which plan it is in. It would be nice to have a history of all the plans that a work item is included in, attached to, etc.

When I'm analyzing work items linked to requirements I need to get to the plan or plans that the work item are part of without having to go dig around to find the info. It would be nice to have the plan as some sort of link on the work item as wel...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Request to add an option to associate change requests with combined changesets in the EWM client

Currently, there is no option to associate change requests with combined change sets in the EWM Client. When we try to combine change sets in the EWM Client (AEEE), the default option is to associate a work item, not a change request. We would lik...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Enumeration pick list values should be allowed to have role based validation.

We have new requirements coming as wider organization starts to use work item workflows where we need to restrict certain enumerations value to be only allowed by role based restriction. Is this something that can be done? Thanks,Samir
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration