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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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[IDz/Project Explorer] Expand automatically the Component folders option in Preferences

When opening IDz or creating new Repository worspace, we see that all the component folder are collapsed. Developers have to open folder by folder and level by level to reach the wished files. It takes time and it is not efficient by doing this wa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

[IDz/Pending Changes] Add Change Summary/Open in Change Explorer/ Associate Work Item / Remove Work Item in the Change set right click menu

In comparison between IDz client and EWM client for Visual Studio, we find out that some good functions of Visual Studio are not available in IDz client. They are the functions when we right click on the change set in Pending Changes view. These f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

Add search bar to the Project Explorer window of IDz Client

The Project explorer of IDz client contains the project tree, grouped by component. In the daily work, developers have the repository with multiple components inside. In order to locate the right file to work, they have to open the component one b...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Add version change to the Pending Changes and History view

In the Pending Changes view, when the incoming change set appears, we don't know exactly the change of the version. It can be confused to developers. We propose to add the information of version modification to the Pending Changes and History, so ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Add a "Description" field for EWM Components in Streams

A field "Description" can be filled for a EWM stream. The demand here is to have the same: a "Description" field for components. Field modified either via the web browser, or the Eclipse client.
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enhance multiproject and team management

We developing electronic control units, the developement for those is usually seperated in multiple domains. Those domains move with different velocities and not all are organiazed in the ALM envoironment. Production and logistics for example have...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Allow ranking in a Quick Planner Work Board

Users like the flexibility of a Work Board in quick planner which allows custom lanes that are not always based on Iteration, but would also like to be able to apply ranking to the lanes as they can in the Plan Board type.
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

[EWM]: Custom color for custom group for Widget Work Item Statistics

Use case: I would like to have a pie chart to display Open vs Closed Work Items Defect with red color for Open group and green color for Closed group on the widget Work Item Statistics. Current situation: I have added a widget Work Item Statistics...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Not under consideration

Link type "Affected by Defect"

Hi Team, One end of the relationship link is "Affects Plan Item" which, for instance, is used starting with a risk affecting a plan item (feature/story/etc.). Looking from the linked affected plan item, the link shows "Affected by Defect" which is...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration