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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Code Review diff using wrong versions for comparison

The current design has taken into account multiple code review cycles effective v7.x since each Code Review cycle is now numbered i.e Code Review Cycle 1, Code Review Cycle 2, and so on. Therefore on the same logic the current Code Review diff com...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

Stream creation time stamp

As developer or team lead i expect a version control tool to report to me the EWM stream creation date at a quick glance i.e right click on stream and the properties to show the stream creation date
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

allow moving build definitions

It is currently not possible to move a Build Definition to a different project area.
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Build 4 Functionality already exists

Engineering Workflow Management(EWM) should have a functionality of filtering workitem change history records based on changed attribute, updatedBy, in the history tab in workitem page.

We have developed an add-on function for automatic calculation of progress and update attribute values for each workitem, that is executed by EWM build engine at a certain interval. Though the function itself works well, it created a lot of workit...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items.

Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items. [background]Currently, the Quick Search feature in EWM only offers two options: "All work items" and "All unresolved work items". These options are insufficie...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Administrators should check the pending Work Items from other users

It would be very useful that the IBM suite administrator could check which is the pending Work Items from other users, although the administrator is not in all Project Areas. For example, when a workmate leaves the company, the administrators must...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Would like to customize the GUI of WorkItems displayed over plans: Scrumboard in particular

The planning component of the Rational Enterprise Workflow Management is one of the nicest part of Jazz/EWM. But it is defining by default what are the several fields used and picked for displaying: Summary, Points, Owner, Status, etc...In particu...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

See directly which user has written in a free text field in EWM

In EWM, it is impossible to see directly which user has written in a free text field in order to know the evolution of the thread.A workaround is to go in historical tab which shows all activities done on a ticket.That is to say that each time it ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

RTC Trend data lost moving to new DB provider

When migrating from one database manager to a different one, there is no migration of the data warehouse. This means that all historical and trend data is lost. The current IBM solutions are to either retain the existing database manager or lose t...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Reporting 1 Not under consideration