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Delivery of empty Change Set and directly discard it

When delivering an empty change set it should be possible to directly discard the change set. At the moment during CS delivery information is provided that CS is empty but there is no possibility to discard the CS immediately. The user needs to en...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

No Revisions shown in Baseline History

When working in the context of a baseline, the module history shows no revisions, not even the ones older than the current baseline.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Missing Feature: Select all Artifacts on Page

Missing Feature: Select all Artifacts seen on PageCurrently, you have to select 1st artifact, scroll down, then shift select last artifact.Basix usability issue.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

keep focus on selected artifact in module view when switching between configurations or creating change sets

Currently, the focus inside the module view is loost when a change set is created or discarded and the top of the module is displayed. This causes users to search again for the selected artifact they have been working on, leading to inefficiency a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Larger Section for History in DNG

When viewing the artifact history page in DNG, the portion of the screen that is devoted to actual artifact history is too small. Suggested improvement is to reduce the height of the header section of this page to allow the history section to be l...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

DNG artifacts removal without warning about existing links to RTC causing back link warning in RTC

Scenario: A DNG artifact within a module was linked to a RTC work item. The DNG artifact was removed from the module before the link to RTC was removed. Then an user tried to remove the link from the RTC work item but the tool was not able to find...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Create a tag in base artifact while in module

When assigning a tag in DOORS NEXT, it would be great if there was a radio box so you can choose to create the tag in the base artifact, and/or the module. Module tags cannot be searched across modules, so most of the time people will prefer to us...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Text search behaviour for look-up terms ('Glossary Items') for short expressions

The search function for look-up terms (Ctrl + Space) within DNG contains since version 7.0 of DNG the new "feature" to not indexing short words like 'the', 'is', ...See: https://jazz.net/jazz03/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/1396...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Create projects templates for CM enabled Projects which includes all components

At present you can only create a template at a component level however this will not preserve links between components which is a major limitation. We need the ability to create a CM Project template and select components (or just include all acti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

The option to "Change Artifact Type" does not honor Link Restrictions of the new artifact type so there should be a warning to manually update Links after changing the artifact type.

End User Perspective: "DNG should prevent us from changing an artifact to a new type if it has links that violate link restrictions in the new type. I was able to change (a certain) artifact that was driving Req artifacts to (another artifact type...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration