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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Avoid Read access to a folder and to a module to some members

In DOORS Next, everyone declared at PA or TA level has a read access to every artifacts in a Project Area. DOORS Next offers to assign ownership to a Team for a folder or at module level. This means read-write access. BUT other members (at PA leve...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide an indicator in review comment list to identify the artifacts for which comment(s) have been answered/responded

It takes VERY long to open each requirement one by one, which are part of review to check if there is a reply to a comment.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Warn the user when duplicate artifact is added to the module

Currently, users are allowed to use same artifacts in one module which are duplicate entries and causes confusion for other users. It would be really useful if we get a warning message when the user is trying to add an artifact which is already ex...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support to select which page is shown in File preview instead of first page

Sometimes when using e.g. Word Plugins to generate flow charts, Word stores the script on first page and the actual flow chart is on second page. This is not usable for users viewing Modules: they would like to see the flow chart instead of script...
28 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow selection of artifacts for review directly from within a module

Use case: Selection of artifacts for a reviewDetailed use case: Allow users to add artifacts to a review directly from within a module (limit review scope to a selected number of artifacts from a module) Current situation: add a complete module or...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Server Scoped Data Types

Use for global (to a Server instance) of data types. Depending on your deployment model, this can simplify management of data types use across DNG Projects and Components (when necessary). Similar to how the "User" data type is "universal" to the ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Allow users to select more than one module view at a time

We use the shared view feature in DOORS Next to limit the number of attributes that are exported in a module. Described here in Step 5 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/lifecycle-management/7.0.2?topic=files-export...
30 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Improve ReqIF in DOORS Next

Hi Today, in DOORS Classic, when we use ReqIF to extract data, ReqIF enables the user to filter attributes to be included in the ReqIF. On DOORS Next side, this possibility does not exist. The request is : reconduct the same in ReqIF when we want ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 5 Not under consideration

ReqIF to work in a GC world without (fine grained) component limitations

The tool shall support cross-component export package definition (in global context) as a kind of global ReqIF (or exchange) manager - maybe in several steps: Enhancement of today's DNG functionality to work cross-component (include outgoing links...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next 2 Future consideration

Autolock artifacts when approved or peer reviewed

It would make the process more efficiency if there were a way to auto-lock the requirement artifacts when the status is changed to "approved" or peer reviewed? Scenario: - We use peer review record to go the RM review process. - We will have multi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration