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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Make DOORS 9 ReqIF Import tolerate (extra) spaces between HTML tags for tables, lists and other structures

Different tools format data in different ways. Extra spaces may be used by some tools, and not by others. Currently DOORS 9 cannot tolerate extra spaces in some HTML tags, for example <td></td> works, but <td> </td> does not.
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Import 0 Future consideration

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package to avoid conflicts. This is generated when the export is done. Generating the UID at different times causes confusion\conflict if there is a use case where th...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Requirements Interchange Format 0 Future consideration

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...
4 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

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

reused artifacts should be mentioned as reused

Hello Team, Steps: 1. Click on artifact 2. Click on Insert existing artifact 3. Select after the artifact 4. In the filter section copy the artifact id that is previous in the hierarchy. 5. Click on add and close Expected: mention that artifact id...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Attributes 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

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

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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Editing/Display 1 Future consideration

Highlight or flag when a primary text is bigger than 32KB, to avoid issues when export to Microsoft excel format.

When user try to export a view of a module, that contains text bigger than 32KB, in excel format the tool gives the error: ID CRRRW8021E The content of primary text field must be less than 32 KB, in order to be exported. Edit the content of primar...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 0 Future consideration

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