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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Workflow Management
Categories Source Control
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 26, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Create keywords to filled in automatically fields such as Author, Project Area, baseline, etc. when delivering change sets or downloading files

We need the ability to automatically fill in fields in files, such as:

  • Author or last modifier

  • Project Area

  • Baseline: when applies

  • etc.

When a change set is checked-in or delivered, or when the files are downloaded using, for example, scm commands. Currently, scm does not provide all the necessary keywords.


The suggested feature for ELM version 7.0.2 and later versions should be similar to the built-in keywords provided previously by Rational Synergy.


With these keywords, the information related to files would be complete.


In the following table, some of the current keywords and their behaviour are descibed. It is also included the additional proposed keywords and their proposed behaviour:

Some of the current keywords

Keyword

Description

Example

$VersionId$

The version ID of the file.

$VersionId: 3$

$Date$

The last modified date of the file in the repository.

$Date: Tue Jan 31 16:47:27 CET 2023$

Additional proposed keywords

Keyword

Description

Example

$Author$

Last person who modified the file in a change set.

$Author: jsmith$

$Component$

The name of the component that contains the file.

$Component: Software Component$

$BaselineId$

When exists, the Baseline identifier that contains the file.

Returns <No baseline> if it is not loaded from a baseline.

$BaselineId: 8$

$Baseline$

When exists, the name of the Baseline that contains the file.

$Baseline: SWC-S001-V0007$

$Snapshot$

When exists, the name of the Snapshot that contains the file.

Returns <No snapshot> if it is not loaded from a snapshot.

$Snapshot: SWC-S001-V0001$

$Stream$

When loaded from a stream, the name of the stream that contains the file.

Returns <No stream> if it is not loaded from stream.

$Stream: SWC-ERD$

$ProjectArea$

The name of the project area from which files are loaded.

$ProjectArea: SWC-ERD (CCM PA)$
Idea priority High
Needed By Week
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  • Guest
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    |     Jun 6, 2023

    To comply with audits based on EN 50128 (functional-safety standard tailored for the particular demands of the rail industry) a known customer needs to provide keywords as listed above in downloaded files. Without this implementation our customer needs to spend much more effort with audits because of the fact that the auditor needs to be guided through the tool. An implementation of keyword extraction IN EWM SCM was added in 6.0.5 and does already exist and needs extension. Minimum information requested by the customer is: Author (Name of the last changer), Release (Stream), Version (File): History of Versiontable (Like File History Information in tool)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2023
    The EWM Ideas Review board looked at this and decided to keep it on the Backlog as an uncommitted candidate for a future release.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 31, 2023

    Idea has been updated with suggested keywords and behaviour. Some of the current keywords have been added to help to understand better the proposal.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 31, 2023
    From the description provided, we understand that the request is to provide additional keywords be supported when files are loaded. To better understand the request, it would be nice if you can provide an example file with the proposed keywords along with how you would like them expanded.

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