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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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Provide a Filter by Link Validity

Provide a filter on the Link Validity column to be able to select all "Suspect links"/"Valid Links"/Invalid Links". At the moment in order to find for example suspect links we can do it only by searching for them manually.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Future consideration

Compare Configuration for Modules

The current compare configuration tool generates differences for the entire component, which often causes the tool to run very slowly and discourages its use by the end-user. It would be useful if there was an option within a module to generate a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add capability to reuse artifacts from different Project Areas and Components

Currently it is possible to re-use Artifacts within the same Component only. This is very restrictive and leads to unnecessary copying of Artifacts. It is a big problem Global configuration is in full use, and setup includes a lot of Project areas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add "Primary Text" to Format Link Display Column

Need to see the linked requirements actual requirements text, not just the name of the requirement in views. It is possible to click on every requirement, but it takes a lot of time. Make it possible to select how to display linked requirements. S...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Make the common permission properties editable in 1 location

User Permission change to Attributes at the Project Level for Multi-Component Projects User defined permissions to artifacts and attributes are managed at the Project scope till Configuration Enabled then at the Stream scope per component. When pr...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Functional Safety Baseline Integrity Assurance

ELM could be used in support of Functional Safety Development Applications but only after qualifying the system and its Enterprise usage to 3rd Party Certification Body. As this comes at great expense to the ELM Customer and having just received t...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 3 Future consideration

Move modules to different component or project area

Create the possibility to move modules to different components and project areas. Moving an artifact as compound operation is requested.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration