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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Need to scope plan to include Category and sub-categories

I need a way to be able to limit the scope of the plan - what is read up from the database - to a category plus its subcategories. I want to use Plan Scope to do this so that it limits how many database items are brought into the plan to improve l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 2 Future consideration

Merge the changes from one stream to other automatically even if the file location is changed

1) Create Stream A with 2 components, comp1 and comp2.2) Create Stream A workspace and share projects to both the components.3) Create Stream B by duplicating Stream A4) In Stream A workpace move file 1 from comp1 to comp2 using 'Move in Repositor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

I would like to create a report to show a relationship between a plan in EWM, a requirement collection in Doors Next and a Test Plan in ETM.

I would like to create a report to show a relationship between a plan in Engineering Workflow Management, a requirement collection in Doors Next and a Test Plan in Engineering Test Management.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Unassigned 6 Future consideration

Add a way to restore a deleted Work Item

There should be a trash / recycle bin in every ELM tool. EWM needs a way to restore a deleted work item
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Possibility of tracking the files downloaded and viewed by a user for audit purpose

Our organization is planning to audit the RTC tool to track the files downloaded and viewed by a user in RTC. We have configured the reverse proxy (IHS) server where we are able to track the IP address and UUID of the artifact using the access.log...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Not under consideration

As a plan view creator I want to be able to use wildcard search for filled against attribute when creating a color tag

Currently, when you create color parameter for filled against, you can only pick up the filled against attribute. But when you have many different attributes, it could be useful to be able to select many values using wildcard search (all values ma...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

Better error messages to indicate out of tmp space or missing files

This request is to have better error logging or messages that actually help to determine what the problem is instead of having to decipher failure of many extraneous, but connected parts of z/os - such as language environment or ISPF or SYSLOG or ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Implement an option to increase the mail templates available on EWM

Currently, the EWM has only 4 email template models, and we like to suggest the add an option for the customer to create and to add their templates, due to some customers are using the 4 templates available and would insert others to facilitate an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow specific users to edit scheduled absences of a user

In EWM you are allowed to add planned absences. This is considered e.g. in the plan view as a reduced work load availability so that the load planning is more accurate. However the planned absences can only be set by the user himself. In our case ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Not under consideration

Request that IBM update their reference material on plan view filters

The current reference material in the help bubble to the right of the expression editor (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/6.0.6?topic=plans-quick-query-syntax) seems to be current, but does not describe all of the attributes available or detailed use.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Documentation 4 Is a defect