A co-worker of mine went to DOORS training last week, which included DXL training, and he was told by the instructor that DXL scripts will be completely phased out in DOORS version 10 scheduled for sometime in 2012. DOORS version 10 is to be fully integrated onto the Jazz platform, and all user interfaces will be through dashboards.
Has anyone else heard about this? Is this a concern for anyone else? What is the JAZZ platform?
DOORS is useful for our installation because of the DXL customizing that we can do (and I know we don't even do a quarter of what so many of the rest of you do.) I am concerned about losing the customizing flexibility or having to learn another language or tool and convert everything.
Thoughts? I'm hoping someone can allay my worries.
mtmccor - Mon Jun 14 18:22:25 EDT 2010 |
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Re: Anyone else heard that DXL is being completely phased out?
Mathias Mamsch - Tue Jun 15 04:41:33 EDT 2010
Removing DXL from DOORS is equal to rewriting the DOORS client from scratch. This means a huge effort for IBM, but I can imagine that IBM will do this. This is the logical step for improving DOORS, but I think that will keep a lot of customers from migrating, since they spend a LOT of money for their addins. Jazz is an interoperability platform which enables all tools to exchange data. At the moment it is pushed to the market heavily by IBM. Lets face it - DXL is overdue. It can't be made much better without breaking downward compatibility, because to much is wrong with it. Therefore it is only logical to remove it completly and implement a state-of-the-art interface.
Regards, Mathias
Mathias Mamsch, IT-QBase GmbH, Consultant for Requirement Engineering and D00RS
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Re: Anyone else heard that DXL is being completely phased out?
Richard_Watson - Tue Jun 15 07:05:51 EDT 2010
IBM have no plans to retire DXL usage, the presenter of your course was in error. There is simply too much DXL in use for this to be possible, even if we wanted to. 50% of the DOORS product itself is developed with DXL.
If you woudn't mind, can you let me know who presented your course so I can give him the correct information for the future? richard.watson@uk.ibm.com
Richard Watson
Product Manager, DOORS
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