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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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Remind users if a Change Set (CS) is older than one week and not delivered yet

Current behavior: Currently a lot of change sets are created by users but forgotten that they are open or not found any more, since it's not known how to find them.Finally we have a lot of old CS also containing changes no one knows if they are st...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

More finely grained application of Roles and Permissions for artifacts and associated attributes to protect content from "unauthorized" editing.

This would allow the protection of specific content in DNG to the benefit of the team members working in the tool. Protection of "Content" and attributes from inadvertant (or intentional) changes by "unauthorized" team members by role would be des...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Composite Delivery Change Set - Editable Name

When delivering Change Sets from one stream to another, a Composite Delivery Change Set is create that contains the list of Change Set that were Delivered. The name of that Composite Delivery Change Set is of that pattern: "Composite Delivery from...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhance tool to allow filtering based on attributes of linked artifacts

Doors Next does not offer sufficient filtering capabilities. Filtering displays only attributes available in current RM component, but not attributes available in linked RM components. To have the possibility to search and display a full picture o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Attribute Type for Rich Text missing

Attribute Type String Rich Text requested for DNG. Reasons: - A requirement has many attributes, some of them are text (string) attributes. Some of these also need to be able to contain tables and images, for example the attribute "Translation of ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide feedback while exporting or import CSV-file from within a view menu

Exporting or import CSV file from within a view menu does not provide 'feedback of progress' or an indication that the job is still active. Users are advising that they cannot figure if the job has completed or just failed. The issue is causing fr...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Export Compare Configuration for specific Module or Change Set

The 7.0.2 release includes a compare configuration report, which looks super promising. Does this report give the ability to only export a give module? The options appear to only include as specific as Artifacts, which I imagine includes all artif...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to select more than one module view at a time

We use the shared view feature in DOORS Next to limit the number of attributes that are exported in a module. Described here in Step 5 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/lifecycle-management/7.0.2?topic=files-export...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Better, more consistent, understandable name for filter "Limit by lifecycle status"

The filter name "Limit by lifecycle status" is very unfortunate. The naming style is totally inconsistent with all the other filter names such as "Artifact type", "Modified by" or "<some_attribute_name>". All these other filter names describ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

links are not following the data model after change of artifact type

Observed behavior: I figured out that there is a link “Derived from” from a Requirement in one PA to an Information in another PA, which is not supported by the data model. (limited by a defined Linked Constraint) Steps to reproduce: Initially, th...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration