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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.

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Usability

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Enhanced Link Explorer

Link Explorer is one directional dilsplay in default. It's better that have two directional display for seeing upper requirement and lower requirement relation immidiately. Please see the attached file. It's good for users to be able to change dis...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under 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 ...
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Undo Function

An Undo Function similar to CTRL-Z in Office Applications is requested. Missing undo functionality for recent edit steps, especially for unintentional changes by “clicking and typing somewhere” in the req. definition or in another attribute in com...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide an indicator in review comment list to identify the artifacts for which comment(s) have been answered/responded

It takes VERY long to open each requirement one by one, which are part of review to check if there is a reply to a comment.
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Warn the user when duplicate artifact is added to the module

Currently, users are allowed to use same artifacts in one module which are duplicate entries and causes confusion for other users. It would be really useful if we get a warning message when the user is trying to add an artifact which is already ex...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support to select which page is shown in File preview instead of first page

Sometimes when using e.g. Word Plugins to generate flow charts, Word stores the script on first page and the actual flow chart is on second page. This is not usable for users viewing Modules: they would like to see the flow chart instead of script...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow selecting all dependencies to be ignored

Current behavior: When a user accepts a Change Set from other stream, a list of dependent CS is provided. The user can select which CS to ignore, one by one. This action is very time consuming, if there are many dependencies and the user wants to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG review: Work with "module artifacts" instead of "base artifacts" only

In the moment only base artifacts can be added to DNG reviews. Module artifacts cannot be added to reviews. This led to the effect that only base artifact links are shown in the review screen. Module artifact links are not shown.Since we review on...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Warning message when limits reached

DNG contains a large number of "limit" parameters (in "Advanced Properties" and when the values of these are reached and exceeded, the user is not explicitly alerted and the documents he exports may be incomplete.
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration