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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Use Date/Time formats when exporting Date/Time attributes in Excel

When a user export a view containing user-defined attributes of type Date (or Time or Date-Time), these attributes are not recognized as a date format in Excel, but as plain text. If you export the Excel table from Report Builder, then the Date at...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Future consideration

DNG Link to EWM File object

I want to be able to link to files in the repository instead of work items in the DNG link settings (eg Effects Requirement / Affected By). Please see attached file. This is good for user DNG+EWM who want asociate with one requirement and one file.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Future consideration

When comparing configurations in DOORS Next provide a way for the user to specifiy attributes to ignore. Also need an option to ignore white space.

It will be very helpful to be able to ignore attribures such as Last Modified and Status as well as ignoring white space differences.
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Our Use Case is to link from a Software Requirement written in Doors next to a Rhapsody Element (outgoing link: traces).

According A-Spice the linking should be as following:System Requirement <-- System Design <-- Software Requirement. Our Requirements are written down as artifacts in Doors Next. Our Design is modeled in Rhapsody. So there is a need to link a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Future consideration

OSLC Links are visible to users without logging to DWA

Every time user needs to login to DWA in order to see the links created to DOORS Classic modules. If this has been skipped, without authentication if the links are seen to user, it would be helpful for the project teams.
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

DNG Needs "Validated By" Link Constraints

DNG does not constrain links from ETM Test Cases (Validated By) to any DNG artifact type [Horizontal Traces]. In contrast DNG nicely supports vertical link constraints to be specified between DNG Artifact Types. It is a minimum expectation that sa...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Additional filter function for link types

It would be nice, if the user could select, while filtering for specific link types, if the link shall be a module based link, a base artifact link, or both. This could be realized by additional checkboxes in the "New Filter" dialogue for the filt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Possibility to Kill Active Services Thread in DNG

Background : There are possibilities to visualize the execution of DNG operations like exporting a module information/importing via API, active users working in DNG application. We have observed some times the automation/other background operation...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Include Instructions to reviewers in email notification

Have the Instructions to reviewers from the DNG Review Object, included in the email notification. These instructions are included in the review object, but the associated email generated automatically by the system does not include these instruct...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Context Change to Delivery Stream after Delivery of Change Set

After delivering or discarding a change set the application does not jump back to the main stream - user remains in the context of the change set (whether delivered or discarded) - same behavior is recognized in DNGv6 RFE: Upon delivery of the Cha...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration