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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Enhancement of user friendly in RTC Planning UI to easliy click "save" button

When I change work items in a plan, I have to scroll all the way up to the head of the site in order to achieve the "Save" button. Atlassian Confluence shows a better way: after scrolling one or two lines up, the "Edit" button occurs and can be us...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add "DNG" - type custom links in to RTC for use with NON-SCM artifacts

EWM gives you the ability to create custom work items...great! However if I have something like (Defect, Task, Support Ticket, Enhancement, Documentation Task) I want to be able to create a and track a Defect and a custom "Documentation Link" or "...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Plan snapshots should be based on plans, not plan views

Currently, if you have Fetch Children on Demand selected, comparing the plan with a snapshot results in all the unfetched items to be reported as removed. This is counterintuitive, and it's effectively mixing the data layer (i.e. the plan) with th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

The Timeline of RTC appears differently in different Timezone, where it shall use the UTC time and display it along with offset of the user

To be able to view the data as per the timezone of the users accessing the information.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Not under consideration

In EWM Eclipse client, provide an option to open a Project Area (in Team Artifacts view) as Read-Only

I had two project ares open in EWM Eclipse client. One (production) I was looking at the process configuration to help me decide what to change in a 2nd project area (test area). I inadvertenly changed production and caused a few headaches. If the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add folder information in which a stream is located

In a EWM Project area, there are many many streams (around 50). The streams are listed in the "All Streams" category in the EWM client. The user has created many many folders and some of streams have been added in a folder but not all. To retreive...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Improve RTC Web - Support viewing of documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint ..) directly instead of download

Currently non-text files have to be downloaded in RTC-WEB and then opened from download area. Improve RTC Web - Support viewing of documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint ..) directly. Attributes for the files are already available in RTC-SCM: e.g. fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

SLACK X RTC integration

As an agile team we would like to use slack as the project team collaboration tool integrated with rational team concert - the agile planning tool.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Influence the order of lined work items (or at least sort them by work item id)

in case there are a lot of linked work items, those work items are not ordered in any way. The best solution would be to allow sorting by the users, but at least those work items should be sorted by work item id. Otherwise it is extremely difficul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

The Plan shall offer the ability to link a query to display the information

Today the plan can only take Team name and the Iteration as input to pull the data. The idea over here is to add an ability to create a query and display that in a plan view. This will resolve the below restrictions: 1. Currently it can only pull ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration