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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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See directly which user has written in a free text field in EWM

In EWM, it is impossible to see directly which user has written in a free text field in order to know the evolution of the thread.A workaround is to go in historical tab which shows all activities done on a ticket.That is to say that each time it ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items.

Please add functionality to Quick Search at the same level as Jira to filter work items. [background]Currently, the Quick Search feature in EWM only offers two options: "All work items" and "All unresolved work items". These options are insufficie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Enable Gitlab/Github flavor markdown

As a software developer, I am working with Gitlab/Github all the time and I found their version of Markdown support is way more productive than the traditional MS Word style formatting. Ever since we switched from Gitlab to EWM, all of our softwar...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Future consideration

Use a GitHub supported workitem pattern in git commit message

EWM supports following patterns in the Git commit message to denote a reference to a EWM workitem:workitem task rtcwi < Work Item ID> bug defect Based on the pattern, links to workitems get created and a browser extension (which is broken me...
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Uncheck by default attributes to copy in the Create New Work Item Copy feature

We use the Create New Work Item Copy feature by clicking the button in the Web UI toolbar. When we do that we wish to copy certain fields to new work items, but rarely do we wish to copy all fields. (Otherwise we would need work item clone.) The p...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Future consideration

Correct BUG in plan view grouping display

See support case: TS015919692 Summary of problem here: - In a plan view I'm trying to 'Group By' a custom attribute. - However, this displays the groups in reverse alphabetical order. - As you can see in the Eclipse window to the right, the Enumer...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

EWM_SCM CLI: Load content into sandbox sub-folder

Source: Case Number TS014810109: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002q8EM2AAM/ewmscm-cli-load-content-into-sandbox-subfolder?language=en_US Hello EWM_SCM CLI Admins / experts:when I load a workspace with the Shell- or Eclipse-Client ont...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Better suggestions in Changesets Work Items' association

In the Work Item association step, the suggested list needs to be improved. Normally, if developer recently works on certain Work Items, they will be suggested by default in a list. However, in daily works, by switching between Repository Workspac...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

Improve filtering of Pending Changes View in EWM 7

Our team uses RTC/EWM for our software change management. We have since many years a well established procedure for delivering changes for our 200+ developers. The procedure is based on using the Pending Changes View in RTC 4. 5, and 6 (in RAD).Be...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 5 Future consideration

Ability to preconfigure the Columns appearing by default in Query creation editor

Steps:1. Navigate to any Project area in CCM (EWM/RTC)2. Click on Work Items Menu --> Create Query3. Click on the Column DisplayPlease Observe the Columns appearing by default. Expected: I shall be able to remove the unwanted default columns (A...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Reporting 1 Future consideration