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My ideas: Global Configuration Management

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Possibility to link a work item under the Links option of a global config stream

Go to a global configuration stream, edit the stream and try to add Links to it. (see screenshot) Currently there is only possibility to add a release option from one EWM project area. More practically, the user shall be able to link to a work ite...
6 days ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 0 Submitted

Inherit "Release links" from parent GC for PGC

When working in config enabled world, we always use changesets to make changes in DNG streams. As you are usually working in a GC context, the tool then automatically switches to your personal global stream. If you need to have links to work items...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 1 Not under consideration

GC REST API to list in which global configurations is used a local configuration

In on gadget we use the "gc/gc.webui.findUse" request. This request give the list of global configurations that contain a given local configuration. Example : https://elm702/gc/gc.webui.findUse?uri=https://elm702/rm/cm/baseline/2F_5JlNEC0REe62aK8r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 1 Not under consideration

Cross Instance Linking should be handled

Cross Instance Linking across applications is very common in real time purposes. But with Global Configuration Management, this is not possible, which is a major blocker in real time scenarios
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability to compare the changes of an individual stream with the Initial/Master Stream

We are following the parallel stream strategy with the introduction of GCM. The Alpha stream is the main stream which will branch out to create Feature/Defect individual streams. We follow the monthly sprint process, however there are instances th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 3 Not under consideration

Improve usability / messaging for users when attempting to "save" personal GC with "Missing Configuration" items.

Would like to see a usability improvement for users taking an action that would result in saving their personal GC with "Missing Configuration" items, which the system prevents. Currently, it is not very clear that this situation is why the system...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 3 Not under consideration

Switching GC context in Doors Next Project area

When switching the global configuration context in dng, the user is shown a dialog with all possible gc streams he has access to. It is only possible to switch to those streams that the currently open dng stream had been added to. From a users per...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 1 Not under consideration

Indirectly adding configurations of the same component to the same Global Configuration

Updated Request: Use Case Reuse of Components in Large Systems: We create Global Configurations representing reusable Software components (e.g., Diagnostics). These Software components are reused in different versions and variants in different pro...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 3 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboards on GC

Request: GC project area do not allow dashboards, this should be changed. Use Case: A GC Project Area represents a customer project. So all customer project specific reports should be added to the customer project GC's dashboard.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 3 Not under consideration

Provide a REST API to retrieve history of a Global Configuration Component, Stream or Baseline

For security audit purposes and others it may be necessary to retrieve information about what changes have been made in a GC component, baseline or stream along with-user id making the change -date/time change made
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Foundation/Common Services / Global Configuration Management 0 Future consideration

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