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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Enhance Archive / Restore by adding features that allow handling very large archives (projects/modules), for example partial restore, or optimised archiving

As DOORS 9 databases exist over many years, and sometimes decades, the data storage space occupied by module and projects can exceed many gigabytes. Archiving those takes a considerable amount of time and resources, and more so does restoring them...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Backups 1 Future consideration

Force user to set a new password, triggered by customization

Because of company mailing policy, the [Reset Password] button does not work, and we solve password reset with customization tools. However the newly set password - with addUser (szDoorsName, szPassword, ""); OR u.password = szPassword; on the fir...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Administration 0 Future consideration

Need to limit export of soft deleted object in ReqIf

DOORS -> DOORS Next ReqIf migration Soft deleted object are transferred in DOORS Next, and marked with ReqIF.ForeignDeleted. If User in DOORS Next delete those entry and then re-import the ReqIf those artifact are "resurrected". The original in...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Requirements Interchange Format 0 Future consideration

Publish a version of the DXL manual in HTML

Currently, the DXL manual is only available as a PDF file, this makes it harder than it needs to be, to search, reference and access specific sections of the manual. It also presents a considerable hurdle for translating its content for non-native...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration

Multiple, independing Object Selection and Editing

Currently, only one or a coherent set of Object(s) can be selected and edited at the same time. For user-experience and optimizing the effort of editing Objects, a Multi-selection-and-Editing feature shall provide the users the ability to select m...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 0 Future consideration

Different Fonts, Font-Sizes and Styles for Attribute-Values in the Module-Window Shall be Possible

Currently, the row in a Module can be colored by an Attributes-color definition the columns text- and background-color can be configured by the columns-properties To get a much more better user-experience and a more-clearer user-interface, the col...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 0 Future consideration

Multi-Window-Option

DOORS Classic Client can only open one window at a time. As users often need to compare values and data between different sections of a Module or Object-Properties, the DOORS Client shall be able to open additional windows of the same view/Module/...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 0 Future consideration

Add 'struct' directives/statement to the DXL interpreter to useful structuring the data/source code

The struct-directive is useful to easily struct and use data in the DXL code for complex scripts Example as in 'C': struct my_struct { int i, string s}; struct my_struct my;my.i = 42;my.s = "Dirk"; print "my.i=" my.i ", my.s=" my.s "\n"; And to be...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration

Accept "\n" for newline in "Edit > Find" dialogue.

Searching for newlines requires a different notation in different parts of the product. For example Filters accept the "\n" notation for newline. "Edit > Find" does not. Find will however work with "\u000A" - the hexadecimal code for Line Feed ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 1 Future consideration

Cursor positioning at the end when accessing large text attributes

When accessing an exisiting text attribute in a DOORS column the cursor goes to the front of the text by default. When the text is large the column is usually narrow and long. Normally the user wants to add something at the end of the text but the...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 0 Future consideration

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