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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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links are not following the data model after change of artifact type

Observed behavior: I figured out that there is a link “Derived from” from a Requirement in one PA to an Information in another PA, which is not supported by the data model. (limited by a defined Linked Constraint) Steps to reproduce: Initially, th...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

ERM views - Permission in templated projects not propagated to new components.

Permissions in templated projects not propagated to new components, e.g.: set a view permission to restrict to Administrator role, make template and create new project component from template. Views with restricted access to Author role are visibl...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Remind users if a Change Set (CS) is older than one week and not delivered yet

Current behavior: Currently a lot of change sets are created by users but forgotten that they are open or not found any more, since it's not known how to find them.Finally we have a lot of old CS also containing changes no one knows if they are st...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Automatic Detection of Glossary Terms

When writing text (artifact content), DNG shall automatically detect if a word is defined as glossary term.If a glossary term is created, DNG should automatically detect duplicated and give a warning.Use Case: Improved Usage of Glossary Terms; Con...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Define validation rules for attributes / data types

Validation rules contribute to the requirement quality by ensuring that requirement attributes are filled out correctly and consistent. There are several possibilites to enrich the validation possibilites in Doors Next (right now only boundaries f...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Define required attributes for specified type + workflow state for an artifact type

Analogous to IBM EWM (Precondition: Required value for type and state) it would be very useful if there is a possibility to create rules to ensure that if the artifact reaches a specific state in a workflow, a value for an attribute is set by the ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Explain that DateTime attribute data types can be exported in ReqIF, even though Date and Time cannot

Customers performing ReqIf export are informed by our help that certain data types are not supported for ReqIF export. Exporting artifacts from a requirements project or component into ReqIF fileshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-m...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Documentation 1 Planned for future release

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

DOORS Next search shall include headings

Current situation: when a filter is applied, artifacts fulfilling the condition are shown one after the other without any indication related to the hierarchy or module structure. This make it hard for the user to identify to which chapter an artif...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Link Explorer

Link Explorer is one directional dilsplay in default. It's better that have two directional display for seeing upper requirement and lower requirement relation immidiately. Please see the attached file. It's good for users to be able to change dis...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Not under consideration