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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Automatic glossary detection after import

After importing a new artifact or module containing multiple artifacts then the user currently has to perform multiple searches in order to add, or link multiple glossary items. Surely this could be automated to highlight matched existing glossary...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

DNG to support Word Equitation

Doors Next should support Word equitation DOCX format, like Rational Doors supports. Word equitation is supported only in DOCX format but this is in conflict with DNG today. At the moment, the steps are quite tedious: Create equitation as docx fil...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Find review for a single requirement revision

If a single requirement (or a subset of requirements from a module) is assigned to a review,... 1) ... it is not visible in the requirements view of a module which requirement is assigned to which review. The review attribute is empty even if the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow users to specify in ReqIF export modules whose contents have changed since a previous baseline

This is helpful for customers who frequently export 100s of modules in ReqIFs. These customers need to reduce the size of ReqIF files to improve import performance. The problem is in choosing modules to include in exported ReqIFs. It usually takes...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Make Workitem Attributes Required or Read-Only by Role

This is borrowed from: https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/a-custom-condition-to-make-attributes-required-or-read-only-by-role/ - A user can have multiple roles - Attributes are required or read only for a role in a certain state - For a user...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Caption & Maximize Tool bar is NOT present on embedded images as they are on embedded Tables

In a DNG Module, a single artifact 'embeds' either a table or an image. The Table has features to edit Table Properties (with right mouse click). The Table Properties provide a way to Caption the table and to Maximize or Minimize the artifact with...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Not under consideration

DNG issue with drag and drop for links

It seems that DNG logic doesn't allow for a drag and drop of a requirements from one component to another unless there is a change set in the side receiving the drop (even if the link will be stored in the starting (drag) side and has a change set...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Not under consideration

Repair Tools Integrated in Application

All the various data repair tools that are available for DNG shall be integrated into the product, and delivered at GA time. This includes, but is not restricted to, the DNGRT tool, FolderIntegrityCheck, L3ToolEncryptPassword, LinkScanner, LinkSwa...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to create dashboard templates in DNG

Default Personal Dashboard Templates not available.Dashboard Project Templates not definable in DNG.A Possibility to define project dashboard templates as defned in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21647611 only works for RTC and RQM.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 4 Not under consideration

Add SVG Rendering Capability to DNG Artifacts

Our team would like to see Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) rendering added to artifacts in the DNG web client in the same scenarios that PNG, JPEG, and BMP rendering is supported. By leveraging the web-browser's SVG rendering ability, the IBM develo...
about 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 4 Not under consideration