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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

Impossibility to export multiple views via ReqIF

In ReqIF Manager, it is not possible to select my module with several views and even if I add views one by one, they are not associated with the module and so they are not exported.
about 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 5 Not under consideration

Flexibility to change font Default font in Modules - IBM ERM-DN

This is useful because of organization standard documents can be captured and retained same font family. Advantages: If End user imported the requirements then they can retain their standard font which is going to help in the Reviews / Audit. Afte...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Future consideration

Allow the link between DNG reviews and Work Items in CCM

Business Need: In the same way that DNG changesets are allowed to be linked to CCM work items (usually Change Requests), DNG reviews should be allowed to be linked to CCM work items. This link would facilitate the traceability between the activity...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Make Artifact Type included by default in all RRDG reports

Most of my customers use the document export wizard from Modules. Most of my customers want to see Requirement IDs on Requirement artifact types only. OOTB, the way to do this is to customize the export in RPE to do a REST call for every single ar...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Project, Component and Folder level Access control granularity

What we need from DOORS NEXT is: Project-Level Access Control granularity: DOORS NEXT already supports this. No further enhancement, requested at this point. Component-Level Access Control granularity: Granting READ only permissions to a user to a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 0 Future consideration