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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 8, 2024

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Functional Safety Baseline Integrity Assurance

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ELM could be used in support of Functional Safety Development Applications but only after qualifying the system and its Enterprise usage to 3rd Party Certification  Body. As this comes at great expense to the ELM Customer and having just received the qualification certificate, there are a number of capabilities to ease the process of evidence for compliance. 

One of these is Baseline Integrity Assurance. As IBM does not guarantee the integrity of data within in the supporting database of ELM, then any baseline used and reviewed and approved comes into question and must be rechecked and assured that the underlying data has not changed from one baseline to the next. Automated Reporting and compare of Baselines highlighting differences through comparison checks and correlating these differences back to approved AND/OR unapproved controlled changes is required and should be included in the Reporting Engine by default. 

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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  • Guest
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    |     Oct 31, 2024
    Following our meeting on 22-Oct-2024, my understanding is you want to have an out of the box reporting capability that compares only the approved artifacts of one module in one baseline with the content of another baseline for that same module. Please let me know if there is more to it.
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 11, 2024

    Since the ELM FuSa Qualification assessment was recently completed, it would be seriously appreciated if IBM engaged in the gap analysis where this finding was presented. The problem is in baseline integrity assurance over time. If an approved artifact in a baseline does not change from one baseline to the next, then all is well, and behavior is expected. Providing external DIFF analysis of the compare configuration output in CSV/XL form will accomplish. However, when DIFF exposes an unexpected change, it becomes a forensic analysis into what the change and why the change. In effect these changes can come in form of LEGAL change [Those inside approved change process] and those if ILLEGAL change [the nature of the FUSA Audit fining] where the compromised artifact has no forensically proven/justified reason for change. This kills the FUSA integrity assurance of IBM solution. AND we have proven this condition, while rare, exists through all kinds of heavy effort and reporting. But effectively all the change state data already resides in the system and self-checking could be built in. To get the job done. 

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 9, 2024
    DOORS Next provides the capability to compare 2 baselines and then generate the corresponding comparison report.
    See: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors-next/7.0.3?topic=application-compare-configuration-report
    What else would be needed to fulfill this idea?

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