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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Provide a DNG Project Explorer (like in DOORS Classic) with links between modules

Today, in DOORS Classic, the feature "RMF - Explore - Project" enables to display for a DOORS Project all the modules with their links between them. Very useful. See the attached snapshot. In DOORS Next (ALM), there is no equivalent. So this RFE i...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 4 Future consideration

Include the possibility to create comments with the API RM

It would be possible to automatize the comments creation on the artifacts with external information
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 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...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

ERM : "Remove Format" feature on a selection of artifacts

Some users create new artifacts and set the content with a copy/past from MS-Word. The content seems to be correct, but in some cases we may encounter problems when exporting to EXCEL, PUB ... To solve the problem, we search about the suspect arti...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 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.
5 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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

DOORS Next: Configuration of E-Mail Attributes for Comments on Artifacts

Current: At the moment an e-mail of a comment (discussion) looks like this: Subject: [ArtfaktType 123456] Artfiakt-Name-up-to-256-chars-or-advanced-setting-in-doorsnext-hiher-then-256-chars E-Mail: User-Name + again the Artifact-Name \n Comment-su...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Display parent artifacts while filtering in view

In a view containing a filter, users would like to have the option to display parent (or child) artifacts (for example a heading) for a better understanding of their location in the module.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 2 Future consideration

Fetch Team Ownership details in DNG

Requesting to provide an API to fetch 'Team Ownership' attribute details in DNG or if it can be included in any of the existing OSLC API's.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration