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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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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

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

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

Editing the "Name" property from the UI is strange...

User feedback that when editing the "Name" property of a requirement in the UI for a module, the text initially is greyed out when editing is activated, forcing the user to click a space or backspace to make the attribute editable and then proceed...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

See changes to configuration from within an active change set

User without permissions to modify component attributes needed another option in an enumerated list. A user with appropriate permissions added the enumeration to the list. But the user was unable to see the change in the context of a change set th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

User request to support "Tab" entry in text fields

User request to be able to use "Tab" character in DNG Requirement attributes to assist with formatting.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Flexible presentation options for editing custom string attributes in context of module views

Beside filling the primary text our users have additional custom attributes filled with meta data. There are also some text attributes, in some of them longer texts are stored.However, if the user wants to edit this custom text attribute inside th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG Reviews - Tag users on review comments

Reviewers should be able to mention other valid users who have permission to the reviews, on a comment, to direct specific comment to the user(s). @mentioning people who are part of a Review to direct a specific comment to them
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration