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DOORS and DOORS Web Access 9.7

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Abstract

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access version 9.7 has been made generally available.

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Table of Contents
Sections Description

The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable.

The How critical is this fix section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected.

The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release.

The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment.

The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment.

The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release.

Supporting Documentation
Document Description

Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.

IBM Knowledge Center provides an entry point to product documentation. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product.

Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family.

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Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

You must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) before you install DOORS and DOORS Web Access.

The DOORS 9.7 client for Windows uses the JRE version 8 for document generation with Rational Publishing Engine and for the help system. You must install a 64-bit version of Java 8, which can be obtained from IBM. After installing, verify that your system has a JAVA_HOME environment variable that is set to the JRE install path; for example: C:\Program Files\IBM\Java8\jre.

To install DOORS Web Access 9.7, you must first install the 64-bit version of Java 8, which can be obtained from IBM.

To obtain the latest JRE fixes from Fix Central, use https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FRational%2FRational+DOORS&fixids=9.6.1.11-RATIONAL-DOORS-JRE-8SR5FP30&release=9.6.1.11&platform=All link.

Review the Version compatibility for DOORS Web Access, interoperation server, DOORS database server and client document prior to installation to ensure the client and server compatibility requirements are met in your environment.

Installation Instructions

Review the Installing section of the IBM Knowledge Center for details.

The DOORS 9.7 client supports 64-bit Windows. There is no support for 32 bit.

The DOORS Web Access 9.7 server supports 64-bit Windows and Linux. There is no support for 32 bit.

All other DOORS components are 32 bit. You can install 32-bit DOORS components on a supported 64-bit Windows platform. See system requirements for a list of supported platforms.

DOORS 9.7 and DOORS Web Access 9.7 do not support Solaris.

The DOORS kit for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 has been updated for DOORS 9.7.

The integrations with IBM Rational Rose and IBM Rational ClearCase are not supported in DOORS 9.7

If you plan to configure local help by deploying the IBM Knowledge Center locally, see the Open defects list.

Download Package

The following sections provide detailed information related to this release.

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IBM Software Group OEM offerings are designed for partners who develop and sell business solutions with embedded or bundled IBM middleware software. Clients with Flexible Contract Type (FCT) license purchases and IBM Business Partners must sign in to download the software package.

How critical is this fix?

Impact Assessment
Impact Description

This is a maintenance release. It contains fixes for customer-reported and internally found defects.

Test Results

Definitions

Regression: An error in the Maintenance Delivery Vehicle (MDV) that produces incorrect or unexpected behavior causing a supported feature to stop functioning as designed.
This includes:

  • Coding errors that cause a regression
  • Documentation or packaging problems that cause a regression
  • Errors reported in a new function delivered in a MDV that cause a regression

Incomplete: An error in the MDV has not regressed, but does not work as designed.
This includes:

  • Fixed APARs which did not solve the original problem but did not break anything new
  • APARs reporting documentation errors, such as readme errors, that cause problems applying an MDV but do not lead to a regression


Notes:
  • Regression and incomplete APARs are considered fix-in-error or MDV-in-error
  • Definitions above apply only to valid APARs that result in product fixes (APARs returned as working-as-designed are not assessed for being fix-in-error)
  • Issues in major releases due to new functionality do not apply in this definition

There are no known regressions to report.

Problems Solved

Defects resolved

Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the problems solved in this release.

Known Side Effects

Review the following list of known issues and open defects:

Review the following technotes for details regarding known issues.

Technote Description
1903758 Cannot paste a screen capture image into an IBM Rational DOORS object text on Microsoft Windows 8.1.
1689169 After upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Rational DOORS interoperation server fails to start.
1689164 Rational DOORS database server restart fails after upgrading to 9.6.1.6 or later
1993849 Rational DOORS OSLC links to module views fail on client computer running Internet Explorer 10 or earlier

Open defects

Review this list of open defects for DOORS and DOORS Web Access on the IBM Support Portal.

Review technote 1461170: Open APARs for Rational products available on the Web for information on how to configure your MyNotifications subscription account and subscribe to the APARs you are interested in following.

If you are configuring local help, do not extract the IBM Knowledge Center to the DOORS installation directory. Use another directory, such as C:\kcci. Deployment of the Knowledge Center to the product installation path might make it difficult to completely uninstall the product in the future.

Change History

What's new
This release includes the following enhancements:
  • When an Administrator resets a password for the user, even a single button press generates a random password, which is send to the user through an email. After logging in, the user is required to reset the password to meet the password criteria.
  • The restriction for linking to DOORS from a global configuration enabled application is removed.
  • RTF tables are represented in ReqIF.
  • In the full edit mode, the DOORS module is auto saved after a determined time that is configured by the user.
  • In the edit or shareable edit mode, a DOORS module switches to the read-only mode when there is no activity for the determined time that is configured by the user.
  • A filter condition can be added that excludes an object based on its deletion state.
  • DWA adopted to Tomcat 9 as Tomcat 7 might go out of support.
  • Windows 2016 support is available for Rational Directory Server.

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Problems (APARS) fixed
PH11611;PH10025;PH10756;PH10582;PH07267;PH05718;PH06212;PH03064;PH05911;PH05910;PH07403;PI97269;PH05906;PH04509;PI97187;PH01395;PI89840;PI96001;PH02286;PH06158;PI98713;PH04402;PI98767;PH06107;PI98637;PH04643;PH01220;PI88384;PH05344;PI98504;PH04946;PH03188;PH03398;PI92134;PI84792;PI94998;PH03117;PH03001;PH00167;PH01844;PI91923;PH01628;PH01485;PH01974;PI99690;PI98631;PH01236;PH01156;PI87606;PI76242;PI89444;PI98692;PI94389;PH11474;PI74225;PH05785;PH04307;PH04358;PH05413;PH03834,PI92392;PH02117;PH01909;PI25266

Document Information

Modified date:
01 May 2020

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