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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Ability to add info icon next to the attribute as it appears in the permission section of the RTC Project area

Today RTC offers the tooltip, but it does not provide any visual indication that some note is available. The RTC as an application has this nice implementation in the Permission section of the tool. where you shall be able to see an info icon. I u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Create the ability to Disable or have a permission on using the Copy Workitem Function in a workitem.

It would be useful in managing clients who should or should not use the functionality.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

EWM does not allow for pre-configured attributes which shall appear for the workitem copy function.

It would be useful to be able to customize which attributes get included in the list of attributes to choose from when you do a workitem copy. This would give the ability to limit or add attributes clients should or should not copy from previous.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 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...
almost 2 years 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

EWM_SCM Shell / Eclipse Client: load repository into sandbox: select subfolder(s) of a component to be loaded, but complete path from component to subfolder should be created

Hello IBM Jazz EWM_SCM Shell / Eclipse Client Admins / Developers, from several of our users we got this request. Current situation: When loading a workspace and "browsing components to select folders to be loaded", then the selected folder(s) are...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Use a GitHub supported workitem pattern in git commit message

EWM supports following patterns in the Git commit message to denote a reference to a EWM workitem:workitem task rtcwi < Work Item ID> bug defect Based on the pattern, links to workitems get created and a browser extension (which is broken me...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Git/CLM's Global Configuration integration

Integrate Git in the CLM's Global Configuration : get Git Tags with exact status of Git repositories in the Global Configuration More details in the attached document (ALM_Git_GlobalConf_specification_V2.pdf).
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Uncheck by default attributes to copy in the Create New Work Item Copy feature

We use the Create New Work Item Copy feature by clicking the button in the Web UI toolbar. When we do that we wish to copy certain fields to new work items, but rarely do we wish to copy all fields. (Otherwise we would need work item clone.) The p...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Future consideration