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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Embedded artifact text to be included in synced title

When using embedded artifacts, the text of these does not show up in the synced title, instead it shows blank spaces which makes our titles confusing.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the Compare Collection feature to provide a comparison of file contents

Please consider enhancing the Compare Collection feature to provide a comparison of the content of files that are different, instead of just the list of files that are different. This would be beneficial, as it would allow customers to use this fe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Introducing an option to enable personal changesets

Current Situation: Every change set that is created is automatically created as shared. In other words, it is possible for several people to work within a change set. This general setting can lead to accidental changes/deliveries being made in thi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 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...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Artifact's Default User interface is mostly taken over by "Primary Text"

Default Artifact User interface is mostly taken over by "Primary Text" If you are not using "Primary Text" to represent your main body of content, this is a major loss of productivity! Alternative proposals: Allow user to configure, which field sh...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 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...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

When import RPE report for DNG with EMF diagram images.

1. Background : Customers are using DNG to manage design requirements.And when importing the RPE document created in MS-Word, the EMF images attached to the document is automatically converted to PNG. However, this is an inconvenient feature becau...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement request following defect 137626 to allow ReqIF Export wizard to advise the export was successful but ended with w

Enhancement request following defect 137626 to allow ReqIF Export wizard to advise the export was successful but ended with warnings due to NPE errors. At present, the ReqIF Export wizard advises users that the export was successful but only revie...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Export multiple modules of a component inside RDNG project to Word or PDF

Dear IBM, We are looking for options to export multiple modules of a component to work or PDF.Now we are doing module by module and then merge those documents into single document.This has become a big productivity drainer for users.For example if...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration