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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next

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Make all of Engineering Lifecycle Management suite of software highly available

We have a need in our Enterprise environment of over 8K users to have our ELM suite of applications (JTS/ETM/EWM/DNG/ETM/JRS/LQE/RPE/LDX/RB) up with minimal down time. This is to avoid long down time during upgrades/fixpacks and monthly OS Patchin...

Detect and report extreme sized Erroneous Contents Fields to ensure such are identified and purged from system to ensure system performance and integrity

Contents Field has no size limits, as such erroneous imports are allowed with 1M+ characters. While such operations are supported, the system cannot handle such loads and crashes. Without prevention of such import operations of large size, system ...

Limit size of field: Contents to ensure system performs and responds timely

Near all ERM artifact attribute fields have size limits. However, the Contents field (rich text field) does not have a size limit. It should have a maximum size to ensure System integrity, response, usability, and performance. While user behavior ...

Option to delete archived baselines permanently

Need an option to delete archived baselines from the database in DNG, so it will not affect the server performance

Simplify the UI for delivering change sets to configurations, when the change sets include many changes but very few of the changes conflict with the content of the target configuration.

DOORS Next currently includes an option for delivering a change set and automatically resolving changes that do not collide with the contents of the target configuration. However, if EVEN ONE of the artifacts in the change set includes a collision...
20 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow disabling of "Directed to: automatic filling in comments.

The idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ENGRMDN-I-67 was marked as unconsidered in 2022. There is a new request by a customer for this feature and would like to submit the idea again to check it further: Using the 'module view' the comment 'attribute...

provide attributes and tags on local DNG components and stream and baseline level as in GC

In GC it is possible to enhance the data model for components and stream and baselines with new custom Attributes and tags.This is a request to provide for DNG for the local components and streams and baselines a similar functionality. An administ...
9 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 0 Future consideration

LQE needs support for the Out of the Box Tag Attribute provided by IBM

the entire purpose of a data structure within a data base is to enable easier/swifter access to the data within for extraction via reporting, or statistical aggregation and analytics. An attribute which cannot be reported upon is contra to this ba...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next 3 Future consideration

RM-DNG Change Set Merge Needs to be at the Attribute Level

The current DoorsNext configuration management Change Set merge process occurs at the Artifactlevel such that two Change Sets which modify the same Artifact but differentAttributes will show a conflict that has to be manually addressed. This reque...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Usability 0 Future consideration

Replace a word or a character chain in one clic in a DOORS Next module

Today, to replace a word or a sequence of words in a DOORS Next module through a view, the facility "Find/Go To" button offers the user to replace the sequence by 2 clics : 1 on Find, 1 on Replace but one by one: once the 1st occurrence is replace...