Skip to Main Content
IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

Showing 539

"Create Child Work Item" button on board cards consumes space

New to 6.0.6.1, taskboard and Kanban board cards have a new "Create Child Work Item" button immediately below the header, which contains the work item ID and a pulldown menu. This extra button consumes valuable card real estate. Such incorporating...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

use buildmap info for deleting HFS output from cobol sources

At SVB we do have sources that produce output on HFS when built. This output is registered in the buildmap from that source with an antscript. But when deleting the source, the buildproces should delete all registered output from the buildmap and ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 2 Future consideration

use buildmap info for deleting HFS output from cobol sources

We need to delete everything that has been produced by builds. At SVB we do have sources that produce HFS output when built. This HFS output is registered in the buildmap from this source, using an ant script When we delete the source, all output ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 1 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

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

About window management in Eclipse Client for EWM

+ Background info The customer owns multiple user IDs and uses them alternately for project management on Eclipse Client. + Description As you know, the window of Eclipse Client is maintained even if log out. This mean is even if log in with a d...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 1 Not under consideration

Restrict linking work items to ERM artifacts to either module context artifacts or base artifacts

Enforcing data conistency is very important when working with a large amount of users on developing a product. ^ When linking a work item with a ERM artifact, you have two options: (a) linking to the base artifact (b) linking to an artifact in the...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 1 Future consideration

New Command Line for getting the file version and modified date in a single command

I am using the SCM Command Line Interface to get specific file information and update them in an Excel sheet. Currently, to get the file version and the date it was updated, I use the following two command lines: Version Information - scm list fil...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 2 Not under consideration