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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Show inlinks from baselined source modules

Initial situation: We have two modules A and B, each containing an object a and b respectively. This is a simplified representation of the situation that exists in development. The two modules correspond to modules that are processed in different ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Links 0 Future consideration

Formal Review triggers Requirement Workflow transition

ETM has a capability to trigger the Test Artifact Workflow (to transition to Approved/Draft/etc) based on the result of formal reviews. A similar functionality should be available in RM, where if a base artifact is added to a review, they automati...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Tools 0 Future consideration

Activate module window and put focus on object context after opening a module, to allow scrolling actions (cursor, mouse wheel, etc) to immediately scroll the objects in the module window.

It is counter-intuitive to open a module and to have to click on an object, or into the scroll bar, to enable scrolling in the list of objects.

Collaboration Links Dialog Box needs Search Field

The list of the of existing entries (projects) in the Collaboration Links dialog-box ("Add Service Link Type", DOORS-Explorer => File > OSLC > Remote Services => Collaboration Links -> [Add]) can be very large, therefore it should b...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Ability to delete specific Discussion comments and not the entire Discussion

This would be useful if someone entered an erroneous comment which needed to be removed while leaving the rest of the discussion intact. Also if module access rights change over time it might be necessary to remove certain comments.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Discussions 1 Future consideration

Migrate DWA to Liberty to bring it inline with other Jazz tools

DWA is currently only support on Tomcat which has a number of limitations with security certificates as well as a different architecture to all other jazz suite products. Enabling DWA to run on LIberty would allow a consistent management and patch...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Installation 0 Future consideration

Provide rich text or hyper text rendering in 'Message of the Day' feature to allow display of clickable hyperlinks

Organisations want to provide users with relevant information and further reading pointers in the form of hyperlinks in a message of the day text. Currently, this feature is plain-text only, and asking users to select, copy and paste a URL into a ...

Add a facility to customise messages shown to users when License checkout fails during Login

Organisation may want to instruct users to open specific internal websites for further guidance when their DOORS 9 login fails due to license checkout issues. This could be instead of or in addition to the string returned from FlexLM. For example...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Licensing 0 Future consideration

Remove deleted requirements when merging documents after ReqIF Export

When frequently importing a ReqIF file with a document, which is updated in another tool, deleted requirements will not be deleted in DOORS after executing the merge mechanism. According to the roundtrip scenario in chapter 7.4.3 the ReqIF Specifi...
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access 3 Not under consideration

Allow a user without Edit DXL power to view the DXL associated with a Layout DXL column.

A user can use a view that was created by someone else. And in that view there may be a Layout DXL column. But if the user does not have Edit DXL power then the user cannot even see the DXL associated with the associated column. It is a problem th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Access Controls 0 Future consideration