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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 8, 2026

Provide a ReqIF Validation tool for ReqIF data packages before/after - Import into and Export from DOORS 9

Only DOORS 9 knows best what data formats and structures it supports during ReqIF import. A tool that allows flagging problematic data or structures pre-Import, could help avoid importing this problematic data and/or identify what data from the ReqIF package will not arrive in DOORS 9.

DOORS 9 may produce (partly) invalid ReqIF packages, and having a validation tool, would increase confidence in the soundness of the exported package.

Validation reports could be used to investigate import and export issues with the third-party tools that are the source or the target of the ReqIF exchange.

This would improve usability, serviceability and inter-tool compatibility.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)