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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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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

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

Ability to control the permission to add/edit Plan View

People mess up the plan view created and shared from the base project. there is no way to prevent the edit at the same time let the user creates the plans. Creation of plan is necessity but controlling the permission to modify an ecxisting plan vi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Enable copying of custom attributes and linktypes when using "Copy Work Item"

when copying a work item, different attributes can be selected to be copied as well. This list needs to include custom attributes and linktypes (custom and otherwise). In a hierarchy of items (eg. user stories -> epic) our users frequently copy...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Work Item Query not Showing all Child workitems linked to the Parent

What steps will reproduce the problem?1. Create a Story Workitem2. Create atleast more than 10 child workitems linked to Story3.Create a EWM Query to display the results in a Query What is the expected output? I should have an option to 'View all'...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Hide "Associate Change Request" functionality if prerequisites for usage of the function are not given

In EWM, link types are only available when they can actually be used. For example "Tracks Requirement" is only visible, if there is an associated RM project area. In SCM, this is not the case for the link type "Associate Change Request". This lin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Future consideration

source.epoch/source.timestamp available as a system variables for a z/OS translator

like @{source.version}, is usable for audit/tracing etc, when running zOS translators, the actual changetime of the file, would be more accurate. As the internal epoch time allready is available, and is stored into build maps etc, this can ensure ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Future consideration

EWM Eclipse Client iFixes in Installation Manager format

Currently all fixes for the eclipse clients are only delivered as P2 installs.This is a huge problem, as IDz and other IBM based eclipse tools all use(require) Installation Manager to install the products.Currently only the initial release of the ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Installation 0 Future consideration