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IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access

Provide a tool that allows incremental file system backups of DOORS 9 database data folders

DOORS 9 databases are growing as the product sees sustained use over years and decades. Backup requirements can run into limitations where full data folder backups aren't possible in a timely fashion; especially where the DOORS 9 server process is...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Backups Future consideration

Add a DXL parameter to open baselines with the standard view instead of the default view - similar to (current version) modules - to better control outdated dynamic content calculations

Modules can have views. A view can be set to be the default view for a module. A default view gets opened by default, when the module is opened.The standard view is a view that contains the object ID and Object Heading+Object Text columns, no filt...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Baselines Future consideration

Enable DNG 'Tags' Attribute in Report Builder for Filtering and Reporting

This Idea is supported to be filed agaist DOORS Next. Updated Idea Link: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ENGRMDN-I-1297 This is a request to enable the "Tags" attribute from DOORS Next Generation (DNG) artifacts within the Jazz Reporting Service (JRS)...

Enable gradual rollout of 9.7.2.11+ cryptographic upgrades via minimum client version control

The cryptographic upgrades introduced in 9.7.2.11 are applied immediately when users connect with the new client version.This prevents organisations from applying their standard practice of testing new versions while maintaining production on esta...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Users/Groups Planned for future release

Restrict File Picker dialogues' file system visibility in DOORS 9 client to specific and/or pre-configured paths

In various places in DOORS Client, file pickers are use to specify file system paths for loading or saving various types of files (exports, templates, DXL). Currently, this is implemented through the operating system's interfaces and file system v...

AI interface for DOORS Classic

As more and more AI is pushing our life of work, data exchange between DOORS Classic and AI Systems are a must to provide the benefits from huge Requirements Management Database and their knowledge-base! As I'm asked internally from our central de...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / API Future consideration

Support Needed for Dependent Enumeration Fields in IBM ELM

In ClearQuest, the values of an enumeration field (e.g., Product Keyword) dynamically change based on the value selected in a preceding enumeration field (e.g., Product/Baseline), and the same condition is applied to subsequent dependent fields. W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Customization Not under consideration

Rational Directory Administrator (RDA) - officially support the Liberty (Websphere) feature for creating/starting/stopping/removing a Windows® service for RDA

Currently, RDA sits on top of Websphere Liberty web application server. Liberty exposes a functionality, that allows operating the server as a windows service. RDA does not natively document or use this. Some operations are limited in the service ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / LDAP Planned for future release

Remove "-XX:+OriginalJDK8HeapSizeCompatibilityMode" from IBM JRE's options.default to allow for modern heap size setting

Somewhat inexplicably, DOORS 9 client still operates with an 8 to 512 Mbytes Java heap during Help Client and more critically, during Document Generation. This can quickly lead to out of memory issues during (RPE lite) Document Generation. If ther...

RTF TABLE SUPPORT in DOORS

Customer imports data from Word and RTF Word tables are not rendered satisfactorily in DOORS. As a workaround the customer saves off each table as a jpg file, removes it from the Word document and imports these separately into DOORS as OLEs. This ...