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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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The RichEdit control shipped with Windows is increasingly falling out of date and style, and already differs significantly from the one used/shipped with Microsoft Office (WMF vs EMF data format).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

Document hardware performance benchmarks for DOORS 9 components, similar to what is available for DOORS Next

At the time of writing, DOORS minimum hardware requirements date back some (many) years and are not at all exhaustive as to what performance is recommended for production workloads. Other products in the same group of tools document their performa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Performance 1 Future consideration

Set default for "New Collaboration Link" always to "select artifact"

Currently if user starts link DOORS object to ALM (CCM, RQM), the first window "New Collaboration Link" always let "select artifact" and "create artifact" unselected. Which means for BOTH options any user will complain it is not necessary. Because...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Links 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...
11 months 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.
11 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...

In the AddAccess dialogue, do not display user names together with group names by default.

Large organisations with hundreds or thousands of users and groups often manage access controls through groups. Displaying all the users together with all the groups in the 'Add Access' dialogue by default, is often not necessary and creates consi...

Make the 'Add Access' dialogue accept the selection and acting upon of multiple Groups/Users at once

This provides the ability to add/edit/remove several groups/users to/from the Item at the time and helps a lot (!) for many access right operations on the item (object, module, project, folder). Currently the dialogue only allows selecting and act...

Make the 'Add Access' dialogue window resizeable to allow displaying Group or User names that are longer than the width of the default dialogue window size.

Items (objects, modules, projects, folders and others) in DOORS 9 client, have a properties - access panel, which has an 'add access' button. The 'Add Access' dialogue behind it, is of fixed size, which can lead to overly long group and usernames ...

In Word to DOORS export, add document structure management similar to RTF import in DOORS.

The current Word VBA to DOORS import addon is lacking behind the feature scope of the RTF importer in DOORS client. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors/9.7.2?topic=modules-importing-rich-text-format-files ....
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Export 1 Future consideration