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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Add means to update / modify baseline access controls in limited scenarios.

Static / frozen Access Control Lists block baselines from being accessed on different - or same but evolved, databases, where users and groups differ / have changed. This is especially an issue when a module with baselines is restored from an arch...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Baselines 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration

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The RichEdit control shipped with Windows is increasingly falling out of date and style, and already differs significantly from the one used/shipped with Microsoft Office (WMF vs EMF data format).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

DOORS QCI shall support ALM 16

ALM 16 is the current iteration of ALM, and not yet supported by DOORS Quality Center Integration. Such support is hereby requested.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add ifdef and ifndef directives to the DXL interpreter to test for active includes and avoid repeated includes of the same files

the include directive is useful for structuring code and expanding scripts during runtime the absence of ifdef / ifndef makes it impossible to test for and avoid repeated includes of the same code (.inc files) this can create unnecessary and consi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Add try/catch perms to DXL to aid in testing for and catching disruptive layout DXL error messages

In some places, DXL can run and throw errors that disrupt a workflow, block the UI or worse. A try/catch mechanism in DXL could allow DXL authors to test for and catch such situations better.
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Performance 1 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