Known issues in Engineering Workflow Management Visual Studio Code extension

The following issues and limitations are known for Engineering Workflow Management 7.3 Some issues have workarounds, and other issues have limitations.

Workarounds

The following issues in this release have workarounds.

Load operation fails from VS Code integrated terminal

First occurrence: 7.2

Problem: Workspace or component load operation fails when invoked from the SCM Command Line Interface (CLI) inside the Visual Studio Code integrated terminal.

Workarounds: Load workspace or components in Visual Studio Code through user interface.

IBM® Engineering Workflow Management extension for Visual Studio Code fails to detect SCM Tools path from settings

First occurrence: 7.1

Internal ID: 593625

Problem: When you install the Engineering Workflow Management extension from the Visual Studio Code marketplace, you are required to specify the location of SCM Tools in the settings page as a post-installation step. In certain environments, when you try to connect to the Engineering Workflow Management repository after this step, the connection still fails with an error message indicating that the path to SCM Tools was not specified.

Workaround:
  1. Open the settings.json file by using the Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) command in the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).
  2. Change the property name from EWMScmDaemonLocation to ewmScmDaemonLocation.
  3. Save the file.

Limitations

The following issues in the release do not have workarounds.