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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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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

RTF tables implementation

Our customers give us reqif files containing RTF tables. After importing such a file the mosule keeps crashing every time we try to view the object containing the table. Implementing RTF tables support would help here a lot. The customers state, t...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Tables 0 Future consideration

Make the 'Add Access' dialogue accept the selection and acting upon of multiple Groups/Users at once

This provides the ability to add/edit/remove several groups/users to/from the Item at the time and helps a lot (!) for many access right operations on the item (object, module, project, folder). Currently the dialogue only allows selecting and act...

Update DOORS Email system to work with ESMTP / authentication / secured ports.

Corporate IT Security requirements demand that SMTP takes place on ports other than 25, and that authentication (username+password) is catered for. DOORS 9 cannot provide that, which potentially blocks all Email features. A DOORS Admin needs to c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access 4 Not under consideration

Expand DXL to allow creation and management of ReqIF Definitions in DOORS projects.

Currently DXL can control ReqIF operations, but not their most crucial component: definitions. This stops automation in essence, as ReqIF definitions still need to be manually created in the GUI.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 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...

Support for Windows Server 2022

Kindly make latest version of Rational DOORS and Change to be compatible with Windows Server 2022
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Installation 0 Future consideration

Import PDFs to DOORS

The customer would like a feature to import a set of requirements in a PDF to a (new) DOORS Module in the same way as is currently possible from a Word document or a csv file.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Import 0 Future consideration

Provide logging that captures Access Rights changes

This is a regular request from customers. This customer is particularly interested in access rights changes made to Groups. There is no way to track who has made changes at the moment.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / History/Audit 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...