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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Allow sorting of Work Items by Due Date in EWM Plans

Projects need to sort the items of their backlog plans by the item's due dates. Unfortunately, this is not possible at the moment. This is a required functionality for efficient planning.
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 1 Not under consideration

Workitem should have an attribute and retrieve the stream names

We are looking to have a support in workitem where user can indicate the target branch name/stream name for code implementation. Initially we need to have a field where user can select related Workitem source control: EWM or GitHub. Then another f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Enhance support for template variables in the workitem templates, e.g. Owned By attribute

We want to define the work item owner as variable in a work item template. Therefore we modified the work item template xml as follows:Added the line:<rtc_cm:WorkItemTemplateParameter id="ownedBy:Contributor" default="" name="User ID"/>and r...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Future consideration

Take into account ETM lab resource reservations in traditional plan scheduling

We are using the Formal Project Management process and traditional planning, as described here:https://jazz.net/library/article/657 We are trying to set up scheduling, but it automatically calculates and only takes into account the schedules of hu...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 0 Future consideration

Organize and maintain links and attachments separately based on the context in work item

If a work item has several links and attachments, it should be possible to organize them for improved readability. By using additional link sections, user should be able to organize links and attachments in specific link tabs (sections). Currently...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Action to copy attribute values from one work item to another

There are scenarios where work items are closely related to each other, because one work item is copied from another. A use case is e.g. Branch handling - duplicated defects to track implementation on different branches (backport fixes, multiple v...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 2 Not under consideration

Provide a "for all" condition to allow for querying on all of the linked artifacts of a work item, approvals, etc.

When adding approval or link data conditions to a query, the logic defaults to "for any". The issue is, that although queries can follow relationships, the query language does not contain any means to express "For all (condition on link and approv...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Attributes added to work item presentations which do not exist in work items created prior to the attribute being added should not be visible in the web browser and be consistent with Eclipse presentation

This is useful to allow new attributes to be added to work items which will be used for newly created work items, without causing confusing unpopulated information to be presented in existing work items in the web browser which do not contain that...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

About the documentation on self-signed certificates.

+ Background infoThe customer set the self-signed certificates. However, when they using the Edge browser, a certificate error happened andcan solved with IBM technotes. Technote link :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1289289 + SuggestionAs ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Documentation 3 Is a defect

Be able to work on different versions of a stream without redoing a load

We need an improvement on EWM 6.0.6 for Eclipse. We have components in different version of a stream (see image Capture1.jpg). Sometimes we need to work on 2 versions at the same time (ex TSBD_6.0 and TSBD_DEV). We create 2 repository workspace. W...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration