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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Make the 'Add Access' dialogue window resizeable to allow displaying Group or User names that are longer than the width of the default dialogue window size.

Items (objects, modules, projects, folders and others) in DOORS 9 client, have a properties - access panel, which has an 'add access' button. The 'Add Access' dialogue behind it, is of fixed size, which can lead to overly long group and usernames ...

In Word to DOORS export, add document structure management similar to RTF import in DOORS.

The current Word VBA to DOORS import addon is lacking behind the feature scope of the RTF importer in DOORS client. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors/9.7.2?topic=modules-importing-rich-text-format-files ....
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 1 Future consideration

For Word to DOORS export, remove the dependency on OLE host applications during export.

Currently OLEs inside Word documents that are to be exported to DOORS 9, are being activated as their content is carried over to DOORS 9, where they are inserted as OLEs again. This makes it necessary for the relevant host application to be instal...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / OLE 0 Future consideration

Implement the Word to DOORS export in a modern OOXML format (dotm) and retire the doors.dot format

The 'classic' Microsoft Office Word template files in the *.dot format are increasingly being blocked in organisations for security reasons. An implementation of the Word to DOORS export in the modern OOXML template with macros file format (dotm) ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 1 Future consideration

Customer requests Microsoft Windows 2022 Server Support for DOORS

Customer plans to migrate all our infra on Windows 2022 servers and would like to use DOORS on this OS also.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Other 0 Future consideration

Requesting support of ALM version 17.1 with HP Quality Center Interface

Customer is planning an upgrade and requests support of HP Quality Center Interface 3.6.1.4 with ALM version 17.1. QCI currently supports ALM version 15 and there have been two major ALM releases since version 15.
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Other 1 Future consideration

Support for Windows Server 2022

Kindly make latest version of Rational DOORS and Change to be compatible with Windows Server 2022

Request to introduce a hierarchy structure to the DOORS views list. Long lists of many views become easily unmanageable in the current UI. Introducing categories under which view names can be grouped will greatly enhance the user experience with long view lists.

Some shared modules can have a huge number of views. Naming of views is often not conducive to usability - ie. showing frequently use views on top of the list to avoid (long) scrolling) when selecting a view. Naming views to achieve this (for exam...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Views 1 Future consideration

DOORS Server badly needs a rollback / undo feature for failed transactions beyond the backup/current/new data file concept currently in use

The connection between DOORS Client and DOORS Server is prone to outages by the nature of its design. DOORS Clients contain most of the application logic, DOORS server has the storage abilities. The transfer of new / edited / processed data betwee...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Server 0 Future consideration

Add means to update / modify baseline access controls in limited scenarios.

Static / frozen Access Control Lists block baselines from being accessed on different - or same but evolved, databases, where users and groups differ / have changed. This is especially an issue when a module with baselines is restored from an arch...