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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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Ability to select all dependencies when delivering changes between streams

When delivering changes from one stream to another, we occasionally encounter dependencies that we may want to ignore. We must select each dependency to ignore one by one. If a "Select All" button could be added, this would save us time. We've had...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Ability to search on specific attributes

My team would find it very useful to select specific attributes to search while using the Find function. This would reduce time for searches (our documents are quite large and have a wide variety of attributes) and would help us zero in on exactly...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Implement feature to configure customized length of fields in ERM Rich Hover Pop-Ups

Hi Team, We have received requirement from ELM users that they want to customize the length of fields which is displayed in the pop-up windows when pointing the mouse on any Artifact ID in ERM. They want to display more than the default characters...
22 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

The default selection for the Comments priority shall be configurable by admin and/or user.

We have to write a lot of Comments that are High Priority, because any comment is usually for a Requirement that needs attention. It's easier to have the Comment default to High Priority. It would be nice to have the ability to change this at the ...
23 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Include attributes behind the link to Excel Export from View

When Artifact has Link to another Artifact, it is possible to define up to 5 attributes behind the Linked artifact be visible in the View. If user saves the selections as View, and makes Excel Export, the attributes behind the link are not in the ...
25 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Currently you can view some attributes of the linked requirement except if that linked requirement is on a different server. We need to see the attribute values for linked requirements even if on a different server.

The current behavior does not provide the user with consistent behavior. We have the outgoing link configured so that we can see the state of the requirement that is linked. This isnt capability is very useful but in the current implementation it ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enforce Link Constraints when User changes Artifact Type

Enforced Link Constraints enable consistency of trace and trace reports. Link constraints are assigned to artifact types. Since a user can change an artifact type, the link constraints for the new type should be applied during the change. Should a...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Display progress bar while exporting data from Module

When we export the data from Module in either csv/xls/xlsx, it just gives a message saying "The export operation has started. The process might take a considerable amount of time, depending on how many requirements are being exported." So, the use...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow selection of artifacts for review directly from within a module

Use case: Selection of artifacts for a reviewDetailed use case: Allow users to add artifacts to a review directly from within a module (limit review scope to a selected number of artifacts from a module) Current situation: add a complete module or...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow to send email to user who Locked Artifact from UI directly

If artifact is locked, new user needs to check who locked it and separately compose email to user and ask unlocking. Proposal is to allow sending email directly from "Artifact is locked" massage in UI. Similar function is in Doors Classic 9.0
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration