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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Plan and Work Board shall allow users to select the Filed Against and Iteration from one place when the Board is created or edited

Today we will have to edit each of the swimlane which is time consuming and inconvenient to the users.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Ability to add "DNG" - type custom links in to RTC for use with NON-SCM artifacts

EWM gives you the ability to create custom work items...great! However if I have something like (Defect, Task, Support Ticket, Enhancement, Documentation Task) I want to be able to create a and track a Defect and a custom "Documentation Link" or "...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable mail generation on CSV import

It should be possible to disable mail generation on CSV import done on the WebUI. Each Work Item is processed for Mail generation. This is also the case when the User has disabled all Mail rules in his profile. Importing thousands of Work Item e...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Possibility to disable automatic subscription on Work Items during CSV Import

It should be possible to disable the automatic subscription of the user who does a CSV import on the WebUI in EWM. When someone imports thousands of Work Items, he is automatically subscribed on each Work Item and will get Emails for any changes ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

A column which shows the end date of an iteration in a plan is needed

A discipline should plan their Realize WIs (e.g. PADITs) according to the need of the parent ChM or PADIT Item (e.g. Feature Request)For the planning, the discipline team (e.g. SW MMI) uses a plan (e.g. Sprint Backlog). In this plan theIteration n...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 4 Future consideration

Add folder information in which a stream is located

In a EWM Project area, there are many many streams (around 50). The streams are listed in the "All Streams" category in the EWM client. The user has created many many folders and some of streams have been added in a folder but not all. To retreive...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Plan snapshots should be based on plans, not plan views

Currently, if you have Fetch Children on Demand selected, comparing the plan with a snapshot results in all the unfetched items to be reported as removed. This is counterintuitive, and it's effectively mixing the data layer (i.e. the plan) with th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

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

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

Changes in ranks in plans need to be tracked and transparent

Users want to have an overview over a plan and the history of a plan (which items are added or removed, history of ranks etc). When several people are working on a plan and on the ranking (or people change ranks, eg via drag & drop unintention...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration