Unique handling of links in filter 'Link changes' during delivery and comparison

This is related to TS016372244 and TS016488144. Feedback from IBM Development Team, and it is working as designed:

"As we know, when a user creates an incoming link in Component A from Component B, that link is stored in Component B. In my tests, the link is not shown during Compare or Deliver for Component A's change set. That behavior is obviously correct.

When I instead create an incoming link within the same component, that link will get shown for both artifacts during Compare or Deliver. This is correct, because the link is not stored against the outgoing artifact (the link's subject), so we don't need to limit the illustration of that link to the outgoing artifact. The storage location of the link is dictated by the location of the outgoing artifact, but there is nothing special about the outgoing artifact apart from that logic."

This is for sure correct from a developer point of view. But from a customer/user point of view I expect that - in the context of global configuration management - there is a unique behavior in displaying/indicating changes in incoming links. When I'm checking links, as a user I don't want to need to care whether the related modules/artifacts are in the same component or in different components.

While for outgoing links there is no difference, as described above - there is a difference only for incoming links. This should be changed or very well documented to make customers aware of this deviation.

Suggestions:

1. During delivery and comparison only show/indicate changes in outgoing links and no incoming links at all. Make a note about this in the documentation.

2. Split the 'Link changes' filter during delivery and comparison in an 'Incoming link changes' and an 'Outgoing link changes' filter. Make a special note that the incoming link filter only shows links form within the same component.

The split between an incoming and outgoing links filter would be highly appreciated. Usually when a document/module is created the outgoing links need to be set immediately. So they are also part of a review for that document. Once the document is released, incoming links may be added later on when successive documents are created. So when I want to check that the released document has not been modified on the stream, I compare it with the baseline it was release within. Then I'm only interested in changed structure, attributes or outgoing links, while I don't care about (later) incoming links.