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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Add a description field to Group definition

Besides the group name which already exists, please add a free-text field for "Group Description". When there are many groups defined in a database (particularly when there are multiple projects in a single database), it is sometimes hard to remem...

Enhance Archive / Restore by adding features that allow handling very large archives (projects/modules), for example partial restore, or optimised archiving

As DOORS 9 databases exist over many years, and sometimes decades, the data storage space occupied by module and projects can exceed many gigabytes. Archiving those takes a considerable amount of time and resources, and more so does restoring them...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Backups 1 Future consideration

Force user to set a new password, triggered by customization

Because of company mailing policy, the [Reset Password] button does not work, and we solve password reset with customization tools. However the newly set password - with addUser (szDoorsName, szPassword, ""); OR u.password = szPassword; on the fir...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package to avoid conflicts. This is generated when the export is done. Generating the UID at different times causes confusion\conflict if there is a use case where th...

Accept "\n" for newline in "Edit > Find" dialogue.

Searching for newlines requires a different notation in different parts of the product. For example Filters accept the "\n" notation for newline. "Edit > Find" does not. Find will however work with "\u000A" - the hexadecimal code for Line Feed ...

Need to limit export of soft deleted object in ReqIf

DOORS -> DOORS Next ReqIf migration Soft deleted object are transferred in DOORS Next, and marked with ReqIF.ForeignDeleted. If User in DOORS Next delete those entry and then re-import the ReqIf those artifact are "resurrected". The original in...

Remove dependency in DOORS 9 client and server on outdated runtime libraries

Currently during installation DOORS 9 client and server deploy outdated runtime libraries in OS folders, and depend on them during runtime. Both product components should be updated in that no parts of the product depends on outdated runtime libra...

The DOORS “Message of the Day” must provide clickable URLs!

Because it is not possible to provide URLs for information to users within the DOORS “Message of the Day” dialog which can be clicked by the users, the entered Urls shall be coded like in Markdown. Example: “[link name](https://www.siemens.com)”

Cursor positioning at the end when accessing large text attributes

When accessing an exisiting text attribute in a DOORS column the cursor goes to the front of the text by default. When the text is large the column is usually narrow and long. Normally the user wants to add something at the end of the text but the...

ERM DOORS DXL security shall allow more options

An enhanced feature to have separate check boxes for each of the component as below instead of having all under "Enable DXL Restrictions " "Enable DXL Restrictions for DXL Home Path" "Enable DXL Restrictions for BAtch Script " "Enable DXL Restrict...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration