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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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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

Allow to redefine 'main column' in a view, to reduce unnecessary data exports where Object Heading+Object Text aren't required.

Currently, exporting data from views, a kind of 'main column' which is hard-wired to Object Heading + Object Text is always included. Exporting these two attributes may not always be desired, for example where requirements are documented in multip...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Views 0 Future consideration

Allow adding existing baselines to new baseline sets to approach a more comprehensive 'emulation' of the concept of versions.

In practise, baselines are more than 'freeze once', 'store away' snapshots of module data / states. Baseline sets are used to capture a defined state of entities described in one or multiple modules. It is not the case, that always the current ver...

Provide a facility in DOORS 9 client to give OSLC connections unique/identifiable (in the context of DOORS 9) names.

OSLC connections can be configured for linking in DOORS 9. A configured connection takes its description / name from the remote project it points at. In a scenario where multiple / separate remote systems are home to similarly named projects / con...

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

A download checksum for installation media

The ELM suite has a checksum for installation downloads. This provides confidence that the installation media is not missing files or data. Our IT security guidelines recommend the use of checksums on downloadable media. It is likely that this wil...

DOORS: Users shall be able to edit the ReqIF definition "Name" and "Description" fields

When a user creates a ReqIF definition and clicks OK there is now no way to edit the "Name" and "Description" fields. If the user has made a typo their only option is to delete this ReqIF definition and create a new one. DOORS should allow users t...

Implement identical richtext capabilities between DOORS 9 client and DOORS Web Access, for example RTF colors

Currently RTF in DWA is more limited compared to the DOORS 9 client. For example, text colors that show in the client are not displayed on the web. Similar feature scope for Richtext between the two methods of displaying module data, is desirable.