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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

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Expand DXL to allow creation and management of ReqIF Definitions in DOORS projects.

Currently DXL can control ReqIF operations, but not their most crucial component: definitions. This stops automation in essence, as ReqIF definitions still need to be manually created in the GUI.
5 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / DXL 0 Future consideration

Remove dependency in DOORS 9 client and server on outdated runtime libraries

Currently during installation DOORS 9 client and server deploy outdated runtime libraries in OS folders, and depend on them during runtime. Both product components should be updated in that no parts of the product depends on outdated runtime libra...

Improve sorts and filters in the Review lists

Improve the sorting options in the Review list; right now, it is only possible to sort by Name, DueDate, Review Status, My Role, and Modified On attributes.d Modified On attributes. It would be good to include Modified by and Created by as sorting...

Expand the TDSPARTITIONADMX in the RDS LDAP scheme and elsewhere as required, to beyond 240 chars

currently this attribute is limited to 240 chars and since it is storing the corporate partition password in encrypted form, that boils down to under 30 plain characters. Which is far too few for modern security and password lengths. Simply modify...
24 days ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / LDAP 0 Future consideration

DOORS QCI shall support ALM 24

ALM 24 is the current iteration of ALM and not yet supported by DOORS Quality Center Integration. Such support is hereby requested.

Add a description field to Group definition

Besides the group name which already exists, please add a free-text field for "Group Description". When there are many groups defined in a database (particularly when there are multiple projects in a single database), it is sometimes hard to remem...

Rational Directory Server migration - add the ability to chunk the migration into smaller groups and improve logging

The current implementatio of the LDAP integration uses a migration utility in Rational Directory Administrator 6.0.0.3 to migrate users and groups from one Rational Directory Server to another. When the corporate ldap is large the migration takes ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Make DOORS 9 ReqIF Import tolerate (extra) spaces between HTML tags for tables, lists and other structures

Different tools format data in different ways. Extra spaces may be used by some tools, and not by others. Currently DOORS 9 cannot tolerate extra spaces in some HTML tags, for example <td></td> works, but <td> </td> does not.
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Import 0 Future consideration

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package

UID for Project\Folder should be generated at the time of creation for Migration Package to avoid conflicts. This is generated when the export is done. Generating the UID at different times causes confusion\conflict if there is a use case where th...

Enhance Archive / Restore by adding features that allow handling very large archives (projects/modules), for example partial restore, or optimised archiving

As DOORS 9 databases exist over many years, and sometimes decades, the data storage space occupied by module and projects can exceed many gigabytes. Archiving those takes a considerable amount of time and resources, and more so does restoring them...