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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Managing automatic links in work items fields

LinkDetector process let any string in work items containing keywords like 'defect 1234' or 'story 5678' to become a link towards dedicated work item. This can really be a very annoying feature when reference is unvolontary or is outside RTC perim...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

Please add Windows Server as supported OS for Jazz Build Engine.

Please add Windows Server as supported OS for Jazz Build Engine. According to the following technote, supported OSs for JBE is as same as Eclipse Client.Operating systems supported by Jazz Build Toolkithttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/operating-s...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Build 1 Future consideration

Delete Links between SCM Change sets and Work Items should not be allowed.

The link between an SCM change set and a work item can be deleted even if the change set is delivered and the work item is closed. It is possible to configure the PAs to get an error when someone tries to deliver a change set without assigning a w...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Redesign the Workflow Transitions grid/table to be more user friendly

Anytime a work item workflow gets about 20+ workflow states, the Transitions table becomes extremely cumbersome as it will not fit well within a users viewable screen area. Having to scroll up/down or left/right cause you to lose your place and no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enhance support for template variables in the workitem templates, e.g. Owned By attribute

We want to define the work item owner as variable in a work item template. Therefore we modified the work item template xml as follows:Added the line:<rtc_cm:WorkItemTemplateParameter id="ownedBy:Contributor" default="" name="User ID"/>and r...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Future 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...
over 3 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Future consideration

The association of a second workitem with the option checkin and associate work item does not give rise to the creation of a second changset

Promote the correct assignment of WIs during Check-ins
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enable bidirectional linking between Configurations and Work Items

In order to successfully use systems engineering on the Jazz platform, configuration managers in combination with structured change management are required, especially for increasingly complex topics. For the role of the configuration manager, a t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Approval Trackings - Set a workflow action when working multiple approvals type

In EWM, using Approval Trackings, it's possible to define how an approval state change can trigger a workflow action. That works fine when we have only one approval type but not with multiple approvals. When working with multiple approvals, we hav...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration