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Add capability to customize review emails

Add capability within the tool to customize who gets notifications for a given review and what the notifications are. Currently emails are sent to the review creator, we'd like to be able to add people to the list for a given review of who should ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

We need a Find and Replace All that works in one instance, not one-by-one processing

This was an RFE back in Feb. 2017 (RFE 113153). It was closed in April 2021 and not added as a planned work item. After discussing a defect with the Find/Replace with IBM support in an open case, the issue of having to click on the Replace button ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable DOCX output for Create a Report/Generate a Report function

To take advantage of the benefits of DOCX format (size, reliability, security) enable Word DOCX output for the Create a Report/Generate a Report for View function. Currently only available to output to Word as DOC format only. RPE allows for outpu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow configuration of default value for Link Validity

Current situation: When we create a new link, the link validity is set automatically to Suspect, then the user needs to set it Valid. In my opinion when a link is first created is Valid, otherwise the user would not create it. Why add an extra act...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Change Set Compare function should use the GC Configuration when looking at outward links to populate what it is linked to rather than say that it is not in the current configuration.

When using DOORS in configuration manage mode and you link between components it is not possible to see in a changeset where your outgoing links go to because the deliver and compare functions DON'T use the GC to enable to see what is at the other...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Edit format of main artifact content from export/import without need of modifying the text itself, just format

After discussing with IBM team, we reached to the conclusion that Doors Next requirements Management supports updating requirements format made with an export to *.xlsx file, updating the content and format and re-importing back to DNG However, it...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNX Feature Request: Bulk removal of links for a set of artifacts

In DNX it's possible to add links to several artifacts at once. But it's not possible to remove or replace links from several artefacts at once. A feature is requested that allows to remove or modify links for several artefacts at once.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Adding "Locked by Information" to Error Message ID CRRRWW7739E

In this error message is it not possible to see who locked the artifact. If you want to figure out who locked the artifact you are forced to leave your changeset. Therefore it would be great if the errormessage could display the name of the user l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

No restriction of characters on filtering on string attributes of custom attributes in DOORS Next

Current situation: When using a full text filter or a string attribute filter in modules, then the filter will only take into account the first 512 characters of the string attribute. This behaviour is only true for custom attributes, not for the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 5 Future consideration

More details on the number or count of requirements (newly added or modified) that are imported into a module after the import

DOORS Next does not provide a pop-up or log file indicating e.g. the number or count of requirements (newly added or modified) that are imported into a module after the import. Hence it would be better to get e.g. a pop-up message or log file whic...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration