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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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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

Please do NOT break the Minor-Version-Compatibility within the same (!) 9.7.2-version

As described in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/about-doors-version-compatibility?view=full, DOORS Classic Client minor-versions must not break the compatibility.DOORS 9.7.2.11 is not compatible to 9.7.2.10, even the same minor-version, but the ...

Copying/moving Data (Objects, Modules, ...) between two DOORS Client Instances

Because it is not possible to transfer (copy/move) data between two DOORS instances (i.e. two parallel started DOORS clients, pointing to different databases), this functionality will be very appreciated. In many cases, user asking to transfer dat...

Remove "-XX:+OriginalJDK8HeapSizeCompatibilityMode" from IBM JRE's options.default to allow for modern heap size setting

Somewhat inexplicably, DOORS 9 client still operates with an 8 to 512 Mbytes Java heap during Help Client and more critically, during Document Generation. This can quickly lead to out of memory issues during (RPE lite) Document Generation. If ther...

Restriction and Visibility using File Against categorization when using a Query to multi edit work items

ELM does not allow Restriction and Visibility using File Against categorization when using a Query to multi edit work items. this fix could improve efficiency and accuracy.

RDS Support for Windows Server 2025

ISVD and DB2 have introduced support for the OS, Cybersecurity Regulatory requirements push for latest OS levels serving up our products. D9 supports the OS.

AI interface for DOORS Classic

As more and more AI is pushing our life of work, data exchange between DOORS Classic and AI Systems are a must to provide the benefits from huge Requirements Management Database and their knowledge-base! As I'm asked internally from our central de...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / API Future consideration

Pop-up confirmation before pasting or moving the project/folder/modules

We have received requirement from our customer with the below scenario: To avoid the unintentional move of project/folders/modules, can you please let us know the possibility to implement an acknowledgment/pop up confirmation from user before movi...

Please reinstate the ability to report on link direction

Background: Well established Systems Engineering techniques prescribe that all upwards traceability should be defined as out-links. Very much following the original way of working with DOORS. With a consistent link direction it should be possible ...

ERM DOORS Shall support Office 365 C2R installations along with MSI installations

Many organisations now use Office 365 C2R Click-To-Run differs from 'classic installations (of Word)", in a number of ways, including how COM / OLE automation endpoints interact with Office / Word to create documents via OLE automation (passing VB...

IBM Rational Directory Server or Rational Directory Administrator shall have audit log

The audit logging to contain the following information or configurable to edit selected events.a. Type of eventb. When the event occurredc. Where the event occurredd. Source of the evente. Outcome of the eventf. Identify individuals or subjects as...