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To address multi site user bases working on DOORS data, add a feature that allows for multisite database provision, data replication and caching.

Multi Site user bases can sometimes be brought closer to their DOORS server by using Terminal Server or Citrix. In some cases connections may be even unsuitable for those approaches (latency, HOPS). Since it is increasingly not the case, that peop...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a facility to restart the DOORS database server Windows service from within the admin tools (dbadmin / dbsadmin).

Currently only a 'killserver' command is available. Restarting the windows service for doorsd.exe / the DOORS DB server still requires (manual) access to Windows Server admin tools. Such access is increasingly blocked / restricted and typically no...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Introduce a 'project manager' role that can take over admin tasks from DB managers, but limited to a project's scope.

In a typical large scale DOORS DB, thousands of users, hundreds of concurrent users, work on dozens or hundreds of projects, while the entire database often has less than a handful of 'database managers'. There is currently no management layer bet...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow removal of locks for specific users in the DOORS Databaseserver Administration Tool (DBSAT)

The current lock management feature is rudimentary: one list of all locks, a remove lock button to acts on one line/item at a time. Managing dozens or hundreds of concurrent users, it is important to be able to remove all locks for a specific user...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing of the DOORS Database Server Administration Tool (DBSAT) window and columns.

The user experience is limited with the current implementation of the fixed size window and columns, particularly on very high resolution screens and when working with huge numbers of users / many lines of data.
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a facility to the Database Server Admin Tool (DBSadmin.exe) that allows to filter with regular expressions on active locks displayed.

Oftentimes admins have to manage hundreds of concurrent users, and their stale locks. Working with a list of dozens and hundreds of rows in the DBSAT is unnecessarily tedious. The simple addition of a filter feature, ideally with regular expressio...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow users to manage / unlock their previously stalled and prematurely terminated DOORS client <> server connections

Currently, users who get disconnected by any means other than the proper DOORS Client "File" "Exit" termination, may find their DOORS session still being active albeit stale, or locks still in place from a previous session. Currently administrator...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please free up license when user is kicked out via the DOORS database admin tool

When the DOORS Database Server Administration Tool is used to disconnect a user, the license is not freed up until the user clicks okay on the dialog box that tells them DOORS will exit. Most of the time, admins want to kick out users that have le...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to set the Autosave feature for all users by default

Customers are hesitant to enable the "Switch module to read-only" feature because if a user has not enabled the "Autosave" feature then unsaved data will be lost when the module is switched to read-only mode. In addition, having the ability to set...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 1 Future consideration

Retire Rational Directory Server and move to a liberty auth server or other current authentication methods

Tivolli RDS is extermely old, difficulit to setup and has poor support available from IBM (it has taken over 6 months to work out how to get it to work in our environment because of the poor deloployment architecture of Tivolli RDS). Given that it...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 1 Future consideration

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