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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Hard to audit changeset after delivery

Difficult to audit a changeset after delivery.Harder after delivery when trying to go back to see what changed. How to diff?No compare with stream option. Instead need to piece meal the changes together. Piece together starting and ending state of...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Under review

Allows creating wrong artifact types

Allows creation of artifacts with wrong types leads to issues.ReqIF has problems, Reports have problems due to this. Need enforcement of artifact type so, for example, non-modules can't be modules. Allowed to create and then edit an artifact to an...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Under review

Cannot prevent changes during review period

Somewhat a symptom of not having in-tool review. Cannot prevent changes subsequent to review/approval but prior to delivery of a change set. Change set state is either open or delivered. No "Under review-don't make changes" state. Since have to do...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Future consideration

Can't see just your own differences between changesets

Can't see just your own differences between change sets. Mixed in with everyone's diffs. Very confusing to see just your own diffs and get misleading visualizations so that now have to dive into each to confirm if real changes or not.Difficulty wi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 1 Under review

More finely grained application of Roles and Permissions for artifacts and associated attributes to protect content from "unauthorized" editing.

This would allow the protection of specific content in DNG to the benefit of the team members working in the tool. Protection of "Content" and attributes from inadvertant (or intentional) changes by "unauthorized" team members by role would be des...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Additional filter function for link types

It would be nice, if the user could select, while filtering for specific link types, if the link shall be a module based link, a base artifact link, or both. This could be realized by additional checkboxes in the "New Filter" dialogue for the filt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

Warning message when limits reached

DNG contains a large number of "limit" parameters (in "Advanced Properties" and when the values of these are reached and exceeded, the user is not explicitly alerted and the documents he exports may be incomplete.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Not under consideration

DNG Link to EWM File object

I want to be able to link to files in the repository instead of work items in the DNG link settings (eg Effects Requirement / Affected By). Please see attached file. This is good for user DNG+EWM who want asociate with one requirement and one file.
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Future consideration

Artifact view should control access permissions

Artifact view should control access permissions
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 1 Not under consideration

Add merge feature for Change Set deliveries which includes modification of attribute and artifact type properties to prevent destructive behaviour

Problem The change set in the source stream contains adding an attribute to an artifact type. While delivering the change, the artifact type configuration of the target child stream is overwritten and stream specific attributes are disconnected fr...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration