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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Cycling linking of Work Items shall not be allowed

Requirement: Cycling linking of Work Items shall not be allowed. Example: CR1 contributes to CR2. CR1 also Tracks CR2. This shall not be allowed. This leads to confusion in planning and may be also in some reports. The logic to be implemented for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

To be able to control write access for components in EWM via an access group perspective

Currently you can control the read access for components in EWM with access groups. It would be useful to also be able to control write access similar to the way read access is being controlled for components to address complex user access control...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Add self-referencing workitem link for drag&drop to external sources

Links for workitems can be copied to external sources such as email, reports, protocols, etc. by dragging & dropping the specific work item reference in Jazz. Users would like to use this functionality for the workitem itself as well and there...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Can we change the icon which helps us to download the result of a query and many other outdated icons

The Companies has different icons and as the UEx gets better we come across different icons. There shall be a possibility to change the icon for a project or at the repository level
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy paste the screenshot/Images, also to save the effort to download to view them.

Bhasker Tiwari (Customer) Mar 09, 2022, 15:03 I am working with RTC. There are tools which supports the attaching of screen shot directly to the work item. Steps: Go to RTC Open a work item in the Browser try to attach some file/image The onl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Not under consideration

Better error messages to indicate out of tmp space or missing files

This request is to have better error logging or messages that actually help to determine what the problem is instead of having to decipher failure of many extraneous, but connected parts of z/os - such as language environment or ISPF or SYSLOG or ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Add a way to restore a deleted Work Item

There should be a trash / recycle bin in every ELM tool. EWM needs a way to restore a deleted work item
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Please provide a feature that can create link by using OSLC asset management from work item.

Please provide a feature that can create link by using OSLC asset management from work item. We would like to create traceability to PLM objects such as parts/assembly information, drawing data and so on from work items on RTC. An "asset/artifact"...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 3 Not under consideration

Possibility of tracking the files downloaded and viewed by a user for audit purpose

Our organization is planning to audit the RTC tool to track the files downloaded and viewed by a user in RTC. We have configured the reverse proxy (IHS) server where we are able to track the IP address and UUID of the artifact using the access.log...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration

Implement an option to increase the mail templates available on EWM

Currently, the EWM has only 4 email template models, and we like to suggest the add an option for the customer to create and to add their templates, due to some customers are using the 4 templates available and would insert others to facilitate an...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration