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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Ability to prevent Team Member from removing an Approval on a Work Item

Requesting the ability to Prevent teammate (colleagues with identical Team Member role) from removing the Approver after the Approval has been added to the workitem and saved. Detailed Use Cases are provided. Our development team has looked at how...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

For REST API, include all state transitions in stateTransitions information, but omit stateTransitions from itemHistory

In 7.x.x the information in stateTransitions was reduced from one element per state transition to only the first transition per state, this considerably reduces the use of stateTransitions for effective workflow analysis and results in the need to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Promote only change sets linked to an existing component in the target stream

Need promotion to have the ability to promote changesets from one stream to another stream, where the up-stream stream does not have all the same components. Promotion needs a checkbox (or property initially) that allows promotion only to occur fo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Approval Trackings - Set a workflow action when working multiple approvals type

In EWM, using Approval Trackings, it's possible to define how an approval state change can trigger a workflow action. That works fine when we have only one approval type but not with multiple approvals. When working with multiple approvals, we hav...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Future consideration

Separate Operation in RTC Process template to modify "Workitem Templates"

Current State: In Process template of RTC-CHM Project Area, “Modify Process Specifications” includes Changes to role definitions, permissions assigned to roles, operation behavior (preconditions and follow-up actions), iterations, configuration da...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Redesign the Workflow Transitions grid/table to be more user friendly

Anytime a work item workflow gets about 20+ workflow states, the Transitions table becomes extremely cumbersome as it will not fit well within a users viewable screen area. Having to scroll up/down or left/right cause you to lose your place and no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

The customer suggests that EWM show more friendly user messages on Engineering Workflow Management source control.

The customer suggests that EWM show more friendly user messages on Engineering Workflow Management source control, for example, on the Subcommand exit codes (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/7.0.2?topic=reference-subcommand-exit-codes), we can see ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Build 1 Not under consideration

Spilit "Require Workspaces to Be Caught Up Before Delivery" preconditon

Stream and workspace two distinct concepts/objects in RTC. Streams are long lived and where as workspaces are short lived used by each developer for personal work which is delivered to team stream. The existing precondition "Require Workspaces to ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Future consideration

Add "Add Folder" button in SCM web interface

Hello, In IBM documentation (see attached file) it is mentioned that in EWM SCM web interface there is a "Add Folder" button, but in the EWM SCM web interface this button does not exist. There is only a button "New Folder". A request from Continen...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Document Preview in repository files inside ibm ewm stream>components

To give background, In IBM EWM components(Source Control) we can preview(read) text files without downloading the files but whereas, other types such as word/pdf files are not able to preview the content without downloading the file.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration