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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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When a change set in the EWM client is discarded without removing its link to the work item, the icon on the change set does not show that it has been discarded

Dear IBM, The context is the communication chain between Rhapsody10, EWM client 703 and EWM 7.0.3. When a change set in the EWM client is (just) discarded, without the link to the work item being removed, the changes are of course not sent to the ...
4 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 0 Submitted

Users should only be able to view or locate another user if that user is part of a project area for which they have read access.

In IBM EWM, users can create multiple Project Areas, each with distinct access control levels. Currently, it is possible to assign users outside a Project Area as Work Item owners, even if they lack access to the Work Item. In such cases, the foll...
3 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Advanced logging of Work Item and Work Item Attachments accessed by users of the system

The GE Aerospace team has been required by the UK Government to provide individual access proof of Work Items in the Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) application. This is a Compliance requirement to be able to demonstrate that exports of info...
25 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Include custom attribute value within changeset (For file delivery) or in baseline in Engineering workflow management.

What we have: We have additionally custom attribute for file status,What we need: this custom attribute value within changeset where we can get exact value of custom attribute like version of file, author of file while delivering changeset why we ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 3 Under review

Need documentation and support for COBOL to Java interoperability builds

Customer would like to use cjbuild in an EWM EE build on z/OS to manage COBOL to Java interoperability programs. A tutorial or sample on how to configure such a build in EWM is needed.

Bulk-copy/move of Work Items

In the same way that it is possible to copy/move a work item, it would be very useful to be able to do it for several. In fact, exporting/importing via Excel does not allow to keep the formatting of texts. It is very tedious to copy the work items...
12 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

In Product Backlog view, Work item hierarchy is not showing when we search for particular work item

In plans when we click on Product backlog view, it shows the list of work items hierarchy for e.g. we have following work items Epic -> Feature -> Plan Summary -> Feature -> PLM Milestone and Story, Similar way we have multiple work it...
24 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Planning 1 Future consideration

変更セットの結合機能において、変更セットを自動で「完了」にさせるオプションを付ける

■課題既存の変更セットを結合し、新たな変更セットを作成した際、その変更セットのレビュー依頼を出したい。そのままでは変更セットは、「完了」していないので、レビューを依頼することができない。 ■改善案以下のオプション機能を追加する。「✅変更セットを結合した際、自動的に完了状態に遷移する」 ■効果変更セットを結合した際、すぐにレビューを依頼することができ、ユーザの操作を簡略化できる。
17 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable email threading for EWM Work Item Emails

For active users of EWM, a significant number of work item emails are generated. Users would like emails sent by EWM to support a message ID in the email header to allow mail clients to thread the messages in their inbox.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 4 Not under consideration

Only run custom value providers on user specified dependencies

In setting up a customized value provider with a javascript based solution, you also define a list of dependencies (attributes) on the attribute for which a value is being calculated or validated by the value provider. It was discovered that in on...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration