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IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing

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PUBDB NEEDS image Size and Aspect Ratio control when Export to Excel

PUB Documentation Builder currently supports Aspect Ratio retention and size constraining when outputting to MS Word document, it however doesn't when outputting to MS Excel. RM-DNG data by its nature is only practically viable via Excel, however,...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 1 Delivered

ability to create PDF's with custom properties like it is working for Word

When generating word documents it is possible to add file properties like e.g. Tags, Keywords, ... as well as custom properties to it. If pdf's are generated then only file properties can be written but no custom properties! Unfortunately the exch...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Unassigned 3 Delivered

Support RPE in windows 11

today, company OS will evolved in windows 11 Entreprise, with 2 updates a year. The tool should be able to follow the OS evolutions in order to ensure the support of users in the new OS. Rational Publishing Engine should have at minimum a Roadmap ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 1 Delivered

Administrator of Document builder cannot see schedules of other users.

ADMINISTRATOR_A is a member of the Jazz-Admin user group, and also listed as "Web admin users" in the Runtime Variables of PUB ADMINISTRATOR_A cannot see schedules created by other users. For e.g. USER_A created several schedules in Document Build...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 2 Delivered

Please upgrade the suported javascript library version to a most recent version

Currently the javacript version suported by RPE is "ECMA Script 3" which is based on wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_version_history) released by Dec. 1999. The current version is 13 from Jun 2022! We always encounter issues an...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 5 Delivered

Missing documentation connection string

There's no documentation for the select connection URL pop up while creating a connection in the document builder.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Documentation Builder 7 Delivered

Cannot change report privacy since it is used in an active schedule.

Need to add an owner and don't want to remove the schedule to add the user When I try to add a new owner to a report that is used in a schedule I receive the following message: Cannot change report privacy since it is used in an active schedule.
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 1 Delivered

Ability to read DOORS text/background colours from RPE

To provide capability in RPE to capture Doors column text/background colours
about 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Delivered

Publish protected Excel workbooks

Some users need to produce tabular metrics to Excel and they do not want consumers to be able to manipulate the data or the formulas within the workbook. Exporting a protected workbook directly from Publishing would help these users.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 2 Delivered

Control conditional formatting of cells in Excel output format

Certain functions of Excel conditional formatting, such as filling the cell according to the percent value within the cell to imply a "progress bar" is not able to be controlled from Publishing.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Document Studio 1 Delivered

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