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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Explain that DateTime attribute data types can be exported in ReqIF, even though Date and Time cannot

Customers performing ReqIf export are informed by our help that certain data types are not supported for ReqIF export. Exporting artifacts from a requirements project or component into ReqIF fileshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-m...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 1 Planned for future release

Python ELM Client needs to be well-documented, along with Samples

BM Python ELM Client: https://github.com/IBM/ELM-Python-Client. Documentation in the ELM python client is not extensive (It doesn't have info on all the API end points & their usage). Only a few samples are provided, and they can't be consumed...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Icon Glossary for DOORS Next Gen

Icons in DOORS Next Gen are becoming numerous particularly when global configuration is enabled and projects contain multiple components. Many of the newer icons are not accompanied with hovers that indicate the definition of the icon. Documentati...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 3 Not under consideration

Include Permissions Settings for "Preferred Views" in IBM Engineering DOORS Next

The Jazz Admin Team controls Shared Views because we want all team members to view requirements the same way. We disallow all end-users from Creating, Updating or Deleting Shared Views. Since we use GC projects, when we use RQM Test Plans we can o...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

To allow from RPE the identification of the direction of the Synonym link used in RM

Hi, We are using the default Synonym link type in RM application to link artifacts allocated in different project areas. For this default link, the ingoing and the outgoing links have the same name: "Synonym". In addition, we use this link type fo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 3 Future consideration

DNG Reviews - capability to select text and comment

Provide ability to select specific words/phrases from the artifact under review, such that the selected portion gets highlighted, and a “comment" dialog opens up where a Rich text comment can be added by the reviewer. The goal of this feature is t...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Lack of clear REST API Documentation

Documentation limitations have already resulted in our team requiring several meetings so far to successfully use the REST API to do tasks such as: Create artifacts (with different types of attributes) Update artifacts Create links/relationships -...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 0 Future consideration

DNG data counters

Wiki https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Deployment/RequirementsManagement70Performance#DataLimits is used by customers as a reference guide for upgrading to 7.x. While the documentation above provides data limits to be observed in DNG it fails to prov...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Reports generated from within DNG generally show only the top config which could be a problem

Is there a way to configure reports that are generated from within DOORS Next (say inside a module) to capture the Global Configuration (if one is active), but also the local configuration (whether a baseline, stream or change set)? All reports sh...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Glossary items in Excel export

When exporting to Excel then any embedded hyperlinks to the glossary are expressed in text rather than as an actionable URL/hyperlink. Export to Word is correct in that the hyperlink is correctly displayed as a URL.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 0 Not under consideration