We’ve put a lot of effort into the enhancements to IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG) 6.0.6, including the following.  For more in-depth detail, see the New &  Noteworthy.

Requirements Repurposing

As users decompose requirements from one level to the next, they typically copy a high-level requirement to draft a lower level need. We call this decomposition repurposing.

This release introduces support for decomposition that:

• Allows for type repurposing to reshape requirements from high-level to low-level types
• Transforms your requirement type on a copy operation based on the preferred artifact types defined in your modules
• Links back to the originator of the repurpose operation
• Copies and links between requirements in different components

 Enterprise and Scale

As deployments of DNG mature, so does the scale of information being managed. Act now and prepare for your additional scale needs. Adopt a deployment topology that has multiple RM servers to:

• Provide another layer of control
• Extend the scale of data that DOORS Next Generation can support

A Multi-RM server topology has been supported for many releases.  This release includes enhancements such as:

• Drag-and-drop linking
• Support for all custom RM link types
• Support for multiple JTS servers
• Notes:
  • All data must be in the same global configuration.
  • Link types must be defined in both RM servers and have the same URI values.
  • Related RM servers must be registered with the same LDX.
  • Focus on module data.

 Module base artifacts location

To facilitate reuse, requirements within modules are also placed into a root “base” folder and can be distracting to users when all they want to see is modules. DNG 6.0.6 enables a project to define the root location for base artifact folders, allowing the user to focus solely on the module data.  This enhancement:

• Removes some of the risks of linking to incorrect requirements
• Refocuses the user on only the requirements in which he or she is interested
• Enables a project manager to continue to apply access controls from a central place

Supply chain with a mix of DOORS and DOORS Next Generation

This release removes the ReqIF restriction of data, crossing a mixed supply chain of IBM
Rational DOORS and DOORS Next Generation where DOORS Next Generation is the original host.

In previous releases,

• DOORS enforces attribute-level locking in order to remove the need for merging conflicting changes.
• DOORS Next Generation has no attribute-level locking since it has the functionality to support merging of conflicting changes.

This release introduces attribute-level locking control in the ReqIF package created from DOORS Next Generation. This enables round-tripping of requirements updates with ReqIF with a supply chain using a mixture of DOORS and DOORS Next Generation.

Usability

This release includes many smaller enhancements designed to improve the daily processes of a requirements engineer including:

• Artifact picker now supports rich hover so that the right requirement is always selected
• “Paste as link” added to trace columns if you prefer to use drag and drop for creating links
• Filter metrics displayed for active filters
• Comment metrics added to review dialog
• and more…

Rational DOORS Next Generation is part of the IBM Rational  Collaborative Lifecycle Management and IBM Continuous Engineering solutions.

• New users can quickly and easily explore DOORS Next Generation on https://jazz.net/previews/.
• To try DOORS Next Gen on the cloud, go to https://jazz.net/products/sandbox/?tag=rational-doors-next-generation.
• To download and install DOORS Next Gen, go to https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-doors-next-generation/.

Richard Watson
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Offering Manager

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