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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Changing the default view access

Our idea is to change the approach to views to automatically inherit module access rights, which is currently different. Namely, now if it is not inherited, the view exists in the module, but it cannot be manipulated. It would be very useful after...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Views 0 Future consideration

Reset baseline version in project after archive/restore process

When creating new Doors projects with archive/restore option (reusing some old Doors projects), in the new project there is information about the latest baseline version at the time of archiving, which is confusing. It would be better, clearer to ...

DOORS lacks View>Save option

The following is a common DOORS use case:1. User with at least RM permission to a module having a module-wide default view opens that module2. Module opens with that module-wide default view loaded3. User customizes the display settings/filtering/...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Views 2 Not under consideration

Add client version logging to login_history.txt

add logging to login_history.txt to record the client version
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 1 Not under consideration

Restriction to user from downloading DOORS data

DOORS Module contains the most important information of the organization. This information should have some restriction to download for some of the users. Is there any facility available out of the box, if not then how to restrict selective users ...

Document how to recognise common transactions in server and client logs at each log level, as a means to better understand logs

Depending on log level, DOORS client and server record transaction logs that can be used to understand events that took place leading to certain behaviour, data states, errors, crashes etc pp . It would be useful to document the most common activi...

Please implement DOORS Web Access components as Windows Services

DOORS Web Access is run as a (web) server, but cannot remain active on a Windows server machine, as it isn't designed to be run as a service. In its supported operation mode, it is run as command line applications in a user session. That's not sus...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Server 0 Future consideration

Alert a user to changes made to data they're currently viewing, since they opened the module. Alert users of outdated data on their screens.

In a scenario, where two users work on the same module concurrently (shared edit):1 User A and User B2 User A locks a section, User B is on another section3 User A modifies objects within their locked section, and saves the modification. User B ma...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / General Usage 0 Future consideration

Provide a facility in DOORS 9 client to give OSLC connections unique/identifiable (in the context of DOORS 9) names.

OSLC connections can be configured for linking in DOORS 9. A configured connection takes its description / name from the remote project it points at. In a scenario where multiple / separate remote systems are home to similarly named projects / con...

Request for a warning message to confirm intent to delete an object

Accidental deletion of objects can happen easily and the customer would like a warning pop up to inform users they are about to delete an object.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Objects 1 Future consideration