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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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To address multi site user bases working on DOORS data, add a feature that allows for multisite database provision, data replication and caching.

Multi Site user bases can sometimes be brought closer to their DOORS server by using Terminal Server or Citrix. In some cases connections may be even unsuitable for those approaches (latency, HOPS). Since it is increasingly not the case, that peop...

Add a facility to restart the DOORS database server Windows service from within the admin tools (dbadmin / dbsadmin).

Currently only a 'killserver' command is available. Restarting the windows service for doorsd.exe / the DOORS DB server still requires (manual) access to Windows Server admin tools. Such access is increasingly blocked / restricted and typically no...

Add the ability to run multiple DXL Service scripts in parallel for functionality that mimics 'server side DXL'.

Unlike most client/server applications, DOORS 9 has most of the logic on the client side, and little to no automation / scripting / maintenance features on the server side. DOORS DXL Services use DOORS Web Access to offer an interface to DOORS via...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration

Provide means to authenticate installer downloads for DOORS 9, such as checksums

Other products in the ELM range document their installer checksums (see https://jazz.net/downloads/requirements-management-doors-next/releases/7.0.2SR1?p=allDownloads&md5=true) We are asking to do the same for DOORS 9 on the relevant portals (...

Modernise the built-in (object) Richtext Editor by moving away from the Windows OS component RichEdit Control

The RichEdit control shipped with Windows is increasingly falling out of date and style, and already differs significantly from the one used/shipped with Microsoft Office (WMF vs EMF data format). Lack of updates and patching on the OS end especia...

Update the DOORS DXL editor with an IDE and a debugger

Currently the DXL Editor consists of two plain text elements: an input box and an output box. They are poorly suited for either task: entering DXL and displaying DXL output. An editor resembling a basic IDE and a form of debugger to step through s...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Ship unencrypted DXL with DOORS client, so that users can maintain and expand customisations as standard features and their DXL change between versions / fixpacks

Customisations are a major unique feature of DOORS 9 compared to all other tools in the engineering space. They frequently integrate with standard / shipped features / UI elements, and in recent years these standard elements are being encrypted by...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Expand DOORS database server (doorsd) design to support multithreading

In light of enterprise software deployments moving away from real hardware to virtual machines and cloud environments, it is no longer ideal for DOORS 9 database server to function as a single-threaded process. To benefit from shared resources (st...

Support and appropriately handle non-local WAN network connections between clients and server, including VPN.

Currently DOORS is not actively managing and tolerating slow network connections to clients beyond the DB wide connection timeout to allow AP hopping with open clients. An increasing amount of users connect to their workplaces remotely, using VPN....
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Performance 2 Future consideration

Customize the separator character when importing CSV files in DOORS 9.7

It would be beneficial because it would not be necessary to change Windows Settings or do any preprocessing to make a correct import