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Abstract
You notice many of your IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) dashboards can't be displayed properly due to missing of Adobe Flash Player plugin, even though you already have the plugin installed.
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Adobe Flash Player will be EOL by December 31 2020. Base on the following link from Adobe Flash official site: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html#, all flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date. That means all EWM tracking and planning dashboards rely on flash features running in 6.x will be affected after Dec 31 2020.
IBM has removed Adobe Flash dependencies from EWM starting from version 7.0, and has backported this feature to EWM 606ifix19 and 6061ifix14. To avoid any negative impact to EWM dashboards due to EOL of Adobe Flash Player, it is recommended for customers to plan on upgrading EWM and Jazz Team Server (JTS) to the above mentioned release or above before December 31, 2020.
If you can not upgrade EWM by December 31, 2020, you can try the following workarounds:
#1: Modify all work item widgets not to use presentation that rely on flash feature such as bar chart, column chart, pie chart.
#2: Make use of JRS report widget instead of EWM. For example, you may create JRS report to provide the same result as the EWM work item query, then replace the EWM work item query widget with JRS report widget, which also comes with chart option that does NOT require flash feature. See screen shot below: The Open Stories widget on the left is a JRS report widget vs the Open Stories widget on the right is EWM work item widget that requires flash feature.
See [CCM] Replace flash charting engine in Tracking and Planning dashboard widgets for the detail feature EWM use to replace flash charting in 7.0, and the following work items for the backport tasks:
Use Planning your ELM upgrade to version 7.0.x to plan for your upgrade.
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Modified date:
04 December 2020
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