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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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support following external links to databases in Chromium browsers (Chrome / Edge)

When following an external link to another database using special protocols (e. g.: cdb:// ), the browser should handle the protocol and open the respective tool. This feature works in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Using Chrome or Edge, an empty ...

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...
7 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.
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 1 Future consideration

Allow the creation of project or module archives while users are working on the data (remove the necessity for exclusive access during the archiving task)

Creating module and project archives must be possible in the background and in parallel, even while modules are in use. Backups of specific projects or modules can only be made during off-peak, users may work late or on weekends, and are thus bloc...

Update DOORS Email system to work with ESMTP / authentication / secured ports.

Corporate IT Security requirements demand that SMTP takes place on ports other than 25, and that authentication (username+password) is catered for. DOORS 9 cannot provide that, which potentially blocks all Email features. A DOORS Admin needs to c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access 3 Not under consideration

Introduce support for silent installation of DOORS client in system account context commonly used in systems management tools

The current logic for DOORS client silent installation installer routines relies on being run in a proper user context (for example 'Administrator' or a local administrator user) to have appropriate write access to unpacking files paths on the fil...

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.

Integrity Check should identify modules which can not be opened in Exclusive Edit anymore

Additonamnl function for Database Integrity Check: Database Integrity Check should be able to check and identifiy the modules which can not be opened in Exclusive Edit. First identify modules and then make suggestions to make the modules modifiabl...

When there are non-ASCII characters in the ReqIF import file path.

As shown in the screenshot in the attachment, if there are non-ASCII characters in the import file path, the import operation cannot be completed. There are situations where customers cannot use the English path, so would like to see improvement i...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Import 0 Future consideration

Provide a facility in DOORS 9 client to give OSLC connections unique/identifiable (in the context of DOORS 9) names.

OSLC connections can be configured for linking in DOORS 9. A configured connection takes its description / name from the remote project it points at. In a scenario where multiple / separate remote systems are home to similarly named projects / con...