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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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Search for users by name, not ID

In every other part of ELM, a user is searchable by their name (not just their ID). In our organisation, user IDs are just a series of 8 numbers, i.e. 12345678 making it very difficult to share assets reports and documents with specific people. Th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 4 Not under consideration

Group By Default

When viewing assets on a large scale Document Builder deployment, there are many assets to organise. Defaulting to a flat list is not the best approach as it would require the user to know they can manually group assets using an additional UI elem...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Not under consideration

Document Builder should support ETM local streams or it should not list ETM local streams

Document Builder supports local configurations for DNG/RM. It does not support local configurations for ETM. However, ETM local configurations/streams are listed in the UI just as they are for RM/DNG. Selecting a local ETM streams cause the Docume...

Region element inside the loop is not possible currently

I am using RPE 702SR1 (iFix15). I wanted to print the same region element in multiple locations on the report. Please find the rpe template attached. In this template, I am printing the same Target Region using 2 Region elements. Instead I can use...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Use a cache to prevent unnecessary loading of dynamic referenced templates

Developing ELO-PUB templates can be slow at the best of times however we breakup our templates into libraries of templates so they can be maintained apart. We use dynamic referencing of templates in our master template. Each time the template is l...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Performance 3 Future consideration

Usage of PUB scrips in RPE by scriptname and not by ID

If you are going to use javascript from PUB (assets --> scripts) in RPE the you can add a javascript with content similar to that: <Script src= "library://api/scripts/104"></Script>. Unfortunately you have to use the key instead of ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 6 Future consideration

Enhancement to jobs API of RPENG to have more meta information

Currently the /api/jobs API gives information of all the jobs along with the job results of each job.As of today, there is no information about the connection details and template details along with the template variables that can be identified fr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 3 Not under consideration

Provide basic version control of template/reports assets

It is important that we know which template generated a report. It would be ideal if each version of the template that is uploaded to document builder maintained a version number. Added to this there should be an ability to switch to a version of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Future consideration

RPE - reporting link validity within RM

I understand it is currently not possible to report on link validity for links between requirements within DOORS Next (i.e. not going out to RQM or other platforms). We would like to to use the link validity function between requirements, and an i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 4 Not under consideration

Need the ability to create reports using ELM for Git commit data.

We have links in ELM between Git commits and RTC work items. Currently, there is no way to generate even basic reports on any Git information. Having this ability is highly valuable for analysis purposes.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Integrations 2 Not under consideration