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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Quick view does not highlight differences, but detail view does-Hard to quickly see diffs

Have to use multiple views in order to get the true representation of what changed.In high level view, it might be showing the difference, but not highlighted. Have to go to detailed view and in that detailed view it does correctly highlight the d...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Not under consideration

Hard to audit changeset after delivery

Difficult to audit a changeset after delivery.Harder after delivery when trying to go back to see what changed. How to diff?No compare with stream option. Instead need to piece meal the changes together. Piece together starting and ending state of...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allows creating wrong artifact types

Allows creation of artifacts with wrong types leads to issues.ReqIF has problems, Reports have problems due to this. Need enforcement of artifact type so, for example, non-modules can't be modules. Allowed to create and then edit an artifact to an...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Cannot prevent changes during review period

Somewhat a symptom of not having in-tool review. Cannot prevent changes subsequent to review/approval but prior to delivery of a change set. Change set state is either open or delivered. No "Under review-don't make changes" state. Since have to do...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Can't see just your own differences between changesets

Can't see just your own differences between change sets. Mixed in with everyone's diffs. Very confusing to see just your own diffs and get misleading visualizations so that now have to dive into each to confirm if real changes or not.Difficulty wi...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Primary text functionality and mapping is not clear

Primary Text functionality and mapping needs to be clear. Currently for Requirements artifact, we use "Title" for "Requirement Name", and "Description" for "Requirement Description". So the use of "Primary Text" is not clear. To make the situation...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Provide a REST GET that returns details on streams that are archived.

If a stream is archived and we send a GET https://<server>:9443/rm/cm/stream/_dLNAYC-zEe6JCvbIaN9OcQthen we get an HTTP 404 error. If we undo the archive of the stream then we can GET the details of the stream. We need get the details withou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Unassigned 5 Not under consideration

DN - filter for "limit lifecycle status" can not be applied in linked artifacts

When applying a filter for linked artifacts I am not able to add another filter for existing OSLC links like "limit lifecycle status". This will be mandatory to be able to use e.g. the connection to workflow items for release assignment. Use case:...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Icon Glossary for DOORS Next Gen

Icons in DOORS Next Gen are becoming numerous particularly when global configuration is enabled and projects contain multiple components. Many of the newer icons are not accompanied with hovers that indicate the definition of the icon. Documentati...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 3 Not under consideration

Enable Filtering in Views from Attributes of Linked Artifacts

We would like to be able to filter a view in the UI based on a value (or portion) of a linked artifact. Sorting would also be nice. The importance of this is that it's apparently possible in DOORS 9.6 & we keep getting bludgeoned by DOORS fans...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration