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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Excel & Word Import

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Simple ETM Import

DNG has a nice user-friendly import capability. ETM does not. Given the Enterprise usage and application of DNG with ETM it only sets up the user expectation to have a pleasing experience of both importing and exporting to and from DNG in a compar...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Linking Test Script Step Results to Requirement using Excel Importer Utility

In 7.0.3 it is now possible to link test script step and requirement. 'TestScript that link steps with existing requirements 002' from sample folder for test script step and requirement linking.(v7.0.3) Usually the links from test script step Resu...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

ETM Excel Importer allow DNG Links to propagate from Test Script to Test Case

We would like the ETM Excel Importer to support DNG requirements links propagating from the Test Script to the Test Case. If a team creates a Test Script manually in ETM and links those steps to a requirement in DNG, the result is that the link pr...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

ETM XL Import Server-side pre-checks

When users inadvertently make mistakes in excel importer configuration file or data, this results in creation of duplicate attributes and enumeration values in target ETM component type system. There are no warnings or alerts that type system is g...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Excel Importer usability improvements

The Excel Importer doesn't allow for updating of existing artifacts in an intuitive fashion. - Linking of requirements is performed from newly created Test Artifacts, unable to link from currently existing Test Artifacts - If the Importer ID is le...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

How to import Review comments and Reviewer from Excel

Want to import the Review comments and reviewer/approver name in test case from Excel
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Excel Importer should have an option to concatenate TCER with iteration when use urn:com.ibm.rqm:testphase: as same as it can in ETM

When users want to create TCER that has name concatenated with iteration, it can be done in ETM by single check. Test Case > Generate Execution Record > Add the iteration as a suffix to execution record names But it can't be done as simply i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Ability to use an "RTC/EWM" like web interface to import steps in to RQM

As a consultant, I am experiencing more and more "IT Desktop lockdowns" of SW on user's Desktops. Asking for the ability to install and Excel/Word plugin for imports has not been a welcome request for "a specific type of customer". Most have denie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration