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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 8, 2026

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Ability to move a requirement between components in the same GC

Sometimes requirements are written in the wrong component. For instance you may have a System component and a Software component and for whatever reason some engineer incorrectly wrote some of the requirements for the Software in the System component. These requirements have been linked to other artifacts in the System component and the ID has been referenced in various documents outside of DN. 

The only operation currently implemented which allows you to reuse the same ID of the requirement and maintain the links is the "Clone" operation. However cloning artifacts in components that are in the same GC is not permitted. The only valid workaround that I have found is to:

  1. Create a new component "System_New".
  2. Clone all artifacts except the ones you want to move.
  3. Remove System's stream from the GC.
  4. Add System_New's stream to the GC.
  5. Clone the artifact you wanted to move from System to Software

This is tedious and error prone.

Therefore I would like to propose that a new feature is introduced where requirements can be moved between components in the same GC without breaking the links and without changing the ID!

Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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  • Guest
    Jan 13, 2026
    Have you tried to use the "Fixing overlapping components" procedure described in
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors-next/7.2.0?topic=components-fixing-overlapping
    2 replies

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