Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

Showing 925

New in DNG v7 - Very annoying 'feature' - After selecting artifacts and performing an operation selected artifacts are automatically cleared.

Select artifacts, perform operation such as edit attributes for n selected artifacts, change and apply - all selected artifacts are automatically de-selected. Very annoying behavior introduced in v7. Request IBM Enhancement to get this feature rem...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Have access to create External Links on the RM API

Hello, Right now with the RM API it is only possible to get info from External Links, but it is not posible to create them. I would like to have this possibility. In fact, when you get the info from the External Link, it only gives you the URL and...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Unassigned 1 Not under consideration

Indicator for existing links of any kind

Having an indicator attribute that shows the existence of any link is much faster than checking the artifacts links section in the sidebar or creating a filter for any possible link. Also OSLC links to RMM and ETM and other external links shall be...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Audit trail for deleted artifacts

Deleted artifacts are gone with no trace they existed. Project History should log deletes, including ID, Name, user, and time of delete. This allows the distinction between artifacts that cannot be found vs artifacts deleted.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 4 Not under consideration

Automatically link embedded artifacts to be able to find where embedded artifacts are used

When embedding images (or artifacts in general) in other artifacts, the artifact that embeds the image knows about the embedded artifact and you can e.g. open this artifact. The embedded artifact is just located anywhere and does not know anything...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Change format of automated emails

The automated emails contain the artifact name and any comment or message fields. These fields may have export control information in our case and because this is a SaaS application, we have a concern that the email may be routed through 3rd party...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Support all DNG attributs and relations

Important parts of DNG information stucture is missing when trying to make reports in Report Builder LQE - Tags (Shared) - Artifact Format - Artifact Type (There is a Type attribut with garbage) - Modified by - A link from Base artifact to all Mod...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next 3 Future consideration

DN is not able to handle Microsoft Word equation editor objects

After copy & paste a Microsoft Word equation editor object to an DN artifact, formating is lost and sometimes artifact can not be saved anymore.DN should offer a possibility to enter equations.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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