Configuring Doors with TDS

Community,

I am new to Doors and TDS (telelogic directory service) so please bear with me if my question is somewhat elementary. I configured my newly installed DOORS 9.0 database to leverage TDS. During the setup I entered the server and port and my test returned successfully; yet when I closed the Doors client and tried to restart it, the client complained that the TDS server was not available and that I could only login as admin. Note: TDS is configured in OS Authentication Mode and I have only created two users in TDS that are in my AD domain.

Is more configuration needed? Is some configuration required in TDS for it to recognize that Doors has been configured to leverage it?

Please help,
Will-T
SystemAdmin - Tue Dec 30 10:41:41 EST 2008

Re: Configuring Doors with TDS
kbmurphy - Wed Jan 21 12:48:30 EST 2009

Will,

I have used DOORS with TDS and it was a pain to configure.

I can't comment on your specific situation but if you haven't, what you ought to do is create a DOORS group on your LDAP server. Tell TDS that someone needs to be in the DOORS group on the LDAP server in order to access DOORS and you're in.

That all being said, there are lots of drawbacks to using TDS. As horrible as the admin interface is in DOORS for dealing with users, it's worse using TDS because you have to constantly filter for users. We can't download the entire enterprise every single time we go into the user menu, as that would take forever. Oh, and if you want to do that and work for a large corporation, it will take forever.

Secondly, and this is a real drawback, you have to update TDS when you upgrade/update DOORS. This adds a layer of complexity in the upgrade. For instance, what if your company uses Synergy and there's a project going on and they don't want to update it until a certain time. If both Synergy and DOORS are configured to use TDS, you can't upgrade DOORS because TDS is generally not backwards compatible. In other words, if you update DOORS and TDS, Synergy users won't be able to sign in!

I highly prefer doing my user management in DOORS. Single sign-ons are great, but I don't set my DOORS servers to expire passwords, so it's not a big deal, and it makes my life more inconvenient with a horrid admin interface.

Re: Configuring Doors with TDS
SystemAdmin - Thu Jan 22 07:30:41 EST 2009

Hi Will-T,

did you find the answer to this problem? I've got the same, please help me!

Thank you very much for your support,
Mathieu