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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Sort end Export in search result view for list of entities using each language definition

Searching for object dependencies with the system definition reference search on z/OS In the search result v iew of the References to all the Language Definitions, I get a list of entities (Programs, Screen, Maps, Copybook, DDL ….) for each Langua...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Need documentation and support for COBOL to Java interoperability builds

Customer would like to use cjbuild in an EWM EE build on z/OS to manage COBOL to Java interoperability programs. A tutorial or sample on how to configure such a build in EWM is needed.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 3 Under review

Show streams from the current project area by default

In the Eclipse EWM client, whenever we use actions like Compare With, Change Flow Target, Replace Baseline, etc. and we are asked to choose a stream, the stream selection window opens with a search field and either an empty list or a list of recen...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Get Complete History of a Project Area

It can be usefeul to get the history of all the actions made on a specific project area including creation/deletion of work items, components, streams, baselines, snapshot. Right now it's possible to have the history of a Stream for exemple (from ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Future consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Automatically & periodically remind people that some tasks they created have not been submitted

How can we automatically & periodically remind people that some tasks they created have not been submitted? We are use EWM for task management and have lots of plans. We would like to remind people to submit task instead of New state every 2 w...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Contributor search result for workitem's Owned by attribute should be restricted to those who belong to the project area

In EWM version 7.0.2,when I search contributors for Owned by attribute using the traditional search function, search result includes users who do not belong to the project area. So I can choose those users. This is not good for security because EW...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

[IDz]Modify the menu API to facilitate the modification right click's menu

There are many menus in the IDz that need to be customized. However, this is a tough task. In order to customize the menu, actually, we need to go inside the standard EWM and Eclipse source code to find out the concerned XML, classes. We can list ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 4 Future consideration

Allow custom coloring of the entire Quick Planner card

In the EWM native planning feature, a Kanban plan view allows a user to configure colors for the kanban cards. In QuickPlanner, you can add colored tags, but there is no way to set the whole card to a certain color based on user defined conditions...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Future consideration

In Product Backlog view, Work item hierarchy is not showing when we search for particular work item

In plans when we click on Product backlog view, it shows the list of work items hierarchy for e.g. we have following work items Epic -> Feature -> Plan Summary -> Feature -> PLM Milestone and Story, Similar way we have multiple work it...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration