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My votes: IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Support and appropriately handle non-local WAN network connections between clients and server, including VPN.

Currently DOORS is not actively managing and tolerating slow network connections to clients beyond the DB wide connection timeout to allow AP hopping with open clients. An increasing amount of users connect to their workplaces remotely, using VPN....
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Performance 2 Future consideration

Doors Flexm License timeout option

Customers would like DOORS to support the Flexm License timeout option. Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/about-doors-license-timeout-option
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Licensing 0 Future consideration

MultiValue Attribute Property value "Remove unchecked values" should be unchecked by default

In the attribute value dialog selecting multiple attributes and modifying multi value attribute the setting for 'Remove unchecked values' is always set. This leads to unwanted modifications. The default should be unchecked. Furthermore this settin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Attributes 1 Future consideration

Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Please add support for RHEL 9.x for DOORS 9.7.2.7.

Requesting support of ALM version 17.1 with HP Quality Center Interface

Customer is planning an upgrade and requests support of HP Quality Center Interface 3.6.1.4 with ALM version 17.1. QCI currently supports ALM version 15 and there have been two major ALM releases since version 15.
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Other 1 Future consideration

(optionally) Store filter and view settings with a baseline

Baselines store data. But they do not store the views and filters and their settings at the time the baseline was taken / current data. This creates issues down the line when views and filters change or get removed. It would be preferable to store...

DOORS Server badly needs a rollback / undo feature for failed transactions beyond the backup/current/new data file concept currently in use

The connection between DOORS Client and DOORS Server is prone to outages by the nature of its design. DOORS Clients contain most of the application logic, DOORS server has the storage abilities. The transfer of new / edited / processed data betwee...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Server 0 Future consideration

Add means to update / modify baseline access controls in limited scenarios.

Static / frozen Access Control Lists block baselines from being accessed on different - or same but evolved, databases, where users and groups differ / have changed. This is especially an issue when a module with baselines is restored from an arch...

To address multi site user bases working on DOORS data, add a feature that allows for multisite database provision, data replication and caching.

Multi Site user bases can sometimes be brought closer to their DOORS server by using Terminal Server or Citrix. In some cases connections may be even unsuitable for those approaches (latency, HOPS). Since it is increasingly not the case, that peop...

Add a facility to restart the DOORS database server Windows service from within the admin tools (dbadmin / dbsadmin).

Currently only a 'killserver' command is available. Restarting the windows service for doorsd.exe / the DOORS DB server still requires (manual) access to Windows Server admin tools. Such access is increasingly blocked / restricted and typically no...