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IBM Engineering - Workflow Management

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Decouple certain attributes from 'Filed Against'

We want to make changes so that moving a work item to new team area doesn’t result in permission error for anything outside of ‘filed against’. Currently, if a user tries to change the filed against on a work item, if a conflicting attribute (such...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Auto Fill Child work item attributes

Auto fill different attributes to match the parent's same attribute. For example, any stories or tasks under an epic with "Applicable Program" filled out should automatically populate the "Applicable Program" attribute at story and task level. Thi...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Add Copy Paste Functionality to EWM

Currently in EWM, you have to click into a work item (story, epic, etc) to copy it, you then have to reload the page (when looking through a sprint planning or PI planning view) to see the copied item show up. After this you can move the copied it...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

Add EWM SCM TRS feeds for traceability between work items and file versions

Use Case: Customer stores document files in EWM SCM components and tracks their progress using work items. In the application, the traceability between the work item and the file is created via the change set. In the application they are able to f...
9 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management 0 Submitted

Bulk Move Work Items between Project Areas

IBM Engineering Workflow Management should allow bulk migration of work items between different project areas. This feature is available via API, which is officially unsupported.
16 days ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Sort end Export in search result view for list of entities using each language definition

Searching for object dependencies with the system definition reference search on z/OS In the search result v iew of the References to all the Language Definitions, I get a list of entities (Programs, Screen, Maps, Copybook, DDL ….) for each Langua...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Administration 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 3 Future consideration

The right panel in the Query view of EWM web client is sometimes hidden, and the button to deploy it is not visible.

Today I faced an issue with a user who couldn't see his queries. In fact the right panel was hidden.To reproduce this issue :- I opened the "shared queries" page in EWM web client in full screen using a big screen (24 in.) and moved the panel sepa...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 1 Future consideration

Managing Subset Folders in a Project Area

It would be useful to be able to create and manage Subset Folders in a Project Area. We would like to separate the Subsets according to the application they refer to. I think that more search criteria would be useful. Actually we can only find sub...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Enterprise Extensions 1 Not under consideration