Release notes - IBM Rational DOORS, version 9.2.0.5

IBM® Rational® DOORS®, version 9.2.0.5 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

Contents

• System requirements
  
• Operating system locales
  
• Compatible products
  
• Installing Rational DOORS v9.2.x
  
• Installing Rational DOORS example data
  
• Installing the Rational Directory Server
  
• Obtaining a license
  
• About Rational DOORS v9.2 patches
  
• Supported releases
  
• What's new in v9.2.0.4
  
• What's new in v9.2.0.0
  
• Defects fixed by v9.2.0.5
  
• Defects fixed by v9.2.0.4
  
• Defects fixed by v9.2.0.3
  
• Defects fixed by v9.2.0.2
  
• Defects fixed by v9.2.0.1
  
• Known problems
  
• Limitations
  
• Contacting support
  
• Notices
  

For the latest news and information on Rational DOORS, visit the Rational Software Support site.

System requirements

Before you can install the Rational DOORS Database Server, your system must meet the following requirements:

• One of the following operating systems must be installed on your computer:
  
  
  • Windows® 2003 Server Standard Edition SP1.
  • Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1. Clustering is not supported.
  • Windows 2003 Server R2 32-bit or 64-bit.
  • Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit or 64-bit.
  • Windows Vista Business Edition SP1 32-bit or 64-bit.
  • Windows Vista Enterprise Edition SP1 32-bit.
  • Solaris 9 32-bit or 64-bit.
  • Solaris 10 32-bit or 64-bit.
  • HP-UX 11i 64-bit.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 32-bit.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (AS, ES and WS) on 64 bit systems (where 32 bit runtime support libraries are available).
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2.
  • VMWARE ESX Server v3.5 running Windows 2003 Server R2 (Standard or Enterprise Edition).
  • VMWARE ESX Server v3.5 running Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 (Standard or Enterprise Edition).
  • VMWARE Workstation v6.0 running Windows XP Professional SP3.
  • VMWARE Workstation v6.0 running Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise or Business Edition).

• For Solaris, we support SPARC architectures only.

• The minimum system requirements for Windows are:
  
  
  • 128 MB more RAM than recommended for your particular Windows system
  • At least 100 MB of free disk space for installation and use
  • At least a 400MHz processor
  • TCP/IP

• The minimum system requirements for UNIX®, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX are:
  
  
  • Follow the manufacturer's recommendations for RAM
  • At least 100 MB of free disk space for installation and use
  • TCP/IP

Before you can install the Rational DOORS client, your system must meet the following requirements:

• One of the following operating systems must be installed on your computer:
  
  
  • Windows Terminal Server on Windows 2003 Server (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
  • Windows Terminal Server on Windows 2003 Server x64 (Standard or Enterprise Edition)
  • Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit or 64-bit
  • Windows Vista Business Edition SP1 32-bit or 64-bit
  • Windows Vista Enterprise Edition SP1 32-bit
  • Citrix XenApp 5.0 (Advanced) on Windows 2003 Server R2 (Standard and Enterprise)
  • Citrix XenApp 5.0 (Advanced) on Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 (Standard and Enterprise)
  • VMWARE Workstation v6.0 running Windows XP SP3
  • VMWARE Workstation v6.0 running Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise or Business Edition)
    

• The minimum system requirements are:
  
  
  • At least 128 MB RAM and a 350MHz processor
  • At least 200 MB of free disk space
  • TCP/IP

You must also consider the following requirements for your system:

• In order to download and install Rational DOORS, your organization must have a license with valid maintenance and be running versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 2.0 of the Rational License Server TL.
  
  For information about how to obtain a license, and about the Rational License Server TL, see the product's user documentation.
  


• If you are running the Rational Directory Server, you must be running version 5.1. For information about the Rational Directory Server, see the user documentation that is supplied with it.



• The computer where you want to install the Rational DOORS Database Server must be running TCP/IP.



• If you want to use FLEXnet licenses, the computer where you want to install the FLEXnet license server must be running TCP/IP.



• Your monitor resolution must be at least 800 by 600 pixels. We recommend at least 1024 by 768.



• If your display card supports only 256 colors, you may experience unusual color effects. Although this will not affect underlying data, we recommend you use a display that supports more than 256 colors.

At the time of writing, the following independent products have been tested with Rational DOORS

• SunOne Directory Server 5.2
• Microsoft® Active Directory for Windows 2003
• Office 2002, including PowerPoint for Windows XP
• Office 2003 SP1, including PowerPoint for Windows XP
• Office XP SP2 or SP3
• Office 2007
• FrameMaker 7.2

For additional information about system requirements, including recommended configurations, see the support Web site.

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Operating system locales supported by Rational DOORS

Any Windows locale.

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Compatible products

• IBM Rational DOORS Web Access 1.3, 1.3.0.1, and 1.3.0.2
• IBM Rational DOORS for ClearCase Interface 2.1.1
• IBM Rational DOORS for ClearQuest Interface 2.2.1
• IBM Rational DOORS for Rational Rose Interface 2.10.1
• IBM Rational DOORS for Serena PVCS Version Manager Interface 1.4.1
• IBM Rational DOORS for HP Quality Center Interface 3.4
• IBM Rational DOORS for Rational Quality Manager Interface 1.0 and 1.02
• IBM Rational DOORS Analyst Add On 9.2
• IBM Rational Change for DOORS Interface 5.7
• IBM Rational Rhapsody for DOORS Interface 7.5
• IBM Rational Statemate for DOORS Interface 4.6
• IBM Rational Synchronization Server 1.3
• IBM Rational System Architect for DOORS Interface 11.3
• IBM Rational Systems Tester for DOORS Interface 3.3
• IBM Rational Tau for DOORS Interface 4.3
• IBM Rational Publishing Engine 1.1
• IBM Rational Directory Server 5.1
• IBM Rational License Server TL 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 2.0

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Installing Rational DOORS v9.2.x

In all cases, Rational DOORS v9.2.x is installed into a new directory named Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.2 by default. After successful installation, if your current version of Rational DOORS is version 9.0 or higher, it is removed from your system. If your current version is prior to version 9.0, it remains on your system.

Note: When you install the Rational DOORS client in Japan, you must accept the default location.

You cannot install Rational DOORS v9.2.x into the same directory as your current Rational DOORS installation. If you try to do this the installation will fail.

For information about installing Rational DOORS v9.2.x, see the Rational DOORS v9.2 Installation Guide. This is available in PDF format on the Rational Solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management DVD, and on the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Installing the Rational DOORS example data

If you already have a Rational DOORS Training Database for a previous version of Rational DOORS installed on your machine, remove it before you install the Rational DOORS example data.

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Installing the Rational Directory Server

For information about installing the Rational Directory Server, see the Rational Directory Server Installation Guide.

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Obtaining a license for Rational DOORS

If this is your first installation of Rational DOORS, you must obtain a license from IBM. You also need to install version 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 2.0 of the Rational License Server TL.

For information about how to obtain a license from IBM, and how to install the Rational License Server TL, see its user documentation.

If you are already running Rational DOORS, the action you need to take depends on the version of Rational DOORS you are running, and whether you have a valid maintenance agreement:

• If you are running Rational DOORS v8.2 or v8.3, and you have a valid maintenance agreement, you do not need a new license to install and run Rational DOORS v9.2.



• If you are running Rational DOORS v8.2 or v8.3, and do not have a valid maintenance agreement, a message is displayed:
  
  The FEATURE name Rational DOORS with version 2009.0602 cannot be found.
  License server does not support this version of the feature
  
  If this message is displayed, you need to obtain a new license.



• If you are running a version of Rational DOORS earlier than v8.2, you need a new license to run Rational DOORS, and you also need to install version 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 2.0 of the Rational License Server TL.

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About Rational DOORS v9.2 patches

When the patch is installed, if you subsequently use the master CD to install another Rational product, the integrations that enable the transfer of information between Rational DOORS and that product are not automatically installed. If you want to use an integration with another Rational product you must install the integration manually. You can either install the integration individually from the CD, or DVD, or you can download it from the IBM Web site.

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Supported releases

Patch 9.2.0.5 is a client patch for Rational DOORS v9.2 on Windows and a server patch for Rational DOORS v9.2 on all platforms.

You can apply this patch to a machine that already has a previous version of Rational DOORS. If you have v9.x already installed, it is overwritten, and Rational DOORS is upgraded. If it is an earlier version (for example, v8.x or v7.x), v9.2.0.5 is installed in parallel with your current version.

You can also install this patch on a machine where Rational DOORS has not previously been installed.

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What's new in v9.2.0.4

• German translated version of Rational DOORS
  
  A fully translated German version of the Rational DOORS interface is available. Parts of the Rational DOORS documentation set are also now available in German.
  
  
• Managing Users and Groups and RDS
  
  If you are using RDS, you can now use the Manage Users menu option in Rational DOORS to disable and enable a user or a group.
  
  Only Rational DOORS 9.2.0.4 and later clients will be able to use this functionality. The behavior is unchanged for earlier DOORS clients.
  
  
• Licensing
  
  The license policy for Rational DOORS has changed. Rational DOORS now uses a per-host licensing model. One license is used per windows login per machine. A user can have more than one instance of Rational DOORS running on their machine.
  
  
• Scaleability
  
  If you are upgrading from Rational DOORS 9.x, the number of concurrent users that can use DOORS has been changed.
  On Windows, the maximum number of concurrent users is now 1024. On Solaris 10, the maximum number of concurrent users is now set to 32000. You need to change your Solaris 10 environment to take advantage of this new limit. For more information, see below.
  On Solaris 9, the maximum number of concurrent users is now set to 128. This number is a result of the number of file descriptors that are available.
  

  Setting up your Solaris 10 environment

  To take full advantage of the new maximum number of concurrent users on Solaris 10, you need to make more file descriptors available to the DOORS server. Currently, 256 are available, which results in a maximum of 180 concurrent users. You need to set up your environment to make 65536 file descriptors available. This will allow you to have the new maximum of 32000 concurrent users.

  To make 65536 file descriptors available, you need to set up extended FILE support on the Solaris 10 server. From release 07/2007 onwards, this comes as standard. You simply need to turn it on. For users with an earlier version of Solaris 10, you need to patch your server.

  Turning on FILE support

  Enter the following commands:

  % ulimit -n 65536
  % export LD_PRELOAD_32=/usr/lib/extendedFILE.so.1
  % cd $DOORSHOME/bin
  % ./doorsd -port

  Solaris 10 patches

  If you need to patch your Solaris 10 server, install the following three patches (all are for the SPARC platform):

  • 125100-04 Kernel Update Patch
  • 120473-05 libc nss ldap PAM zfs Patch
  • 125800-01 Fault Manager Patch

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What's new in v9.2.0.0

• Telelogic rebranding
  
  Telelogic is now part of IBM, and the work is ongoing to rebrand Rational DOORS to bring it into the IBM Rational family. Much of the look and feel of Rational DOORS remains largely unchanged with most of the changes "behind the scenes".
  
  Rebranding is an incremental process and will continue in future releases of Rational DOORS.
  
  
• Support for RIF standards
  
  Many companies need to be able to share requirements data with partners, some of which might even be using different requirements management tools. In response to this need, IBM Rational has begun the process of integrating support for Requirements Interchange Format (RIF) into Rational DOORS. RIF is the standardized format and data model defined via an XML schema by the HIS initiative.
  
  Rational DOORS v9.2 enables companies to simplify project collaboration with partners and ensure that they do not lose critical requirements information when exchanging data. The functionality provides the means to distribute development of requirements between suppliers. Suppliers can contribute whole documents that trace back to central requirements, sections of documents, or even attributes of specific requirements.
  
  This version of Rational DOORS includes the following new features:
  
  
  • Support for export and Import with XML data based on the RIF standard.
  • Data interchange of Rational DOORS data including modules, objects, links.
  • Support for construction of metadata including modules, types, attributes, views (this will not support changes to existing metadata but will construct new metadata where found).
  • Localized support for history
  • Support for the transfer of DXL Attributes as plain text.
  • Support for OLE objects.
  
  
  A patch to Rational DOORS v9.2 is planned for the third quarter of 2009 to extend coverage of RIF. Expected functions include:
  
  
  • Disperse module selection - Supports modules selected from any folder within the related project.
  • Baseline support, import a baseline into a new module.
  • Distributed data control:
    
    
    • Delegation of requirements activities.
    • Partners can modify defined attributes within a module.
    • Partners can modify defined object hierarchies within a module.
    • Partners can manipulate links.
    • Partners can modify defined attributes within a module.
    • Merge data back into the original module locations.
    
    
  • Support for the transfer of Layout DXL and traceability columns as plain text.
    
    
  Known limitations for RIF due to outstanding patch (above)
  
  
  • Definitions of RIF packages limited to modules from a single folder location
  • Support for layout DXL only through converting layout DXL to attribute DXL
  • Some of the following dialog components are disabled:
    
    
    • On the RIF Definitions tab on Project Properties, the Recover and Imports buttons
    • On the Edit RIF definition dialog, the Module version, Delegated data control mode, and Delegated data control view fields
    • On the Import RIF package dialog, the Use existing RIF Definition check box, and the RIF Definition Name, RIF Definition Description and RIF Import Package Description fields
      
      


• Two-factor authentication and PKI
  
  The demand for security within businesses has been increasing, and in response Rational DOORS has now been extended to support two-factor authentication. Rational DOORS now provides support for multiple levels of authentication before you are able to gain access to your Rational DOORS data.
  
  Two-factor authentication comes in two forms:
  
  
  • A user logging into Rational DOORS must also have logged into their local operating system using a predefined account. We store the local user name as part of the Rational DOORS credential.
  
  
  
  • A user needing greater security (for example, when logging in remotely using a digi pass) must also provide further authentication using facilities through a Radius server.


Two-factor authentication uses facilities from the Rational Directory Server.

This implementation of two-factor authentication also satisfies the requirements for an environment supporting Public Key Infrastructures (PKI).


• Licensing
  
  IBM announces that the license policy for Rational DOORS has changed.
  
  Each instance of Rational DOORS running on a single machine will now consume its own Rational DOORS license.
  
  
• Japanese translated version of Rational DOORS
  
  Enterprises must coordinate globally distributed project teams in order to achieve the goals of their development strategy. Many companies have experienced a high degree of project failure due to communication and interpretation issues. Global projects require local language support to enable geographically dispersed development teams to work more efficiently.
  
  To respond to the increased needs of the Japanese business and IT community for localized versions of Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web Access, IBM Rational has expanded its offerings to deliver a comprehensive package of requirements management tools translated into the Japanese language.
  
  
• Rational DOORS for Rational Quality Manager Interface
  
  Rational DOORS v9.2 will be integrated with other Rational products to provide full lifecycle traceability in a collaborative and secure environment. This is the first step towards the integration of Rational DOORS with the Jazz Technology Platform. This initial release includes the integration of Rational DOORS with Rational Quality Manager. An integration with Rational Requirements Composer is expected to be available in September 2009.
  
  There are a number of definitions of how to measure quality, one of them being "quality is a measure of conformance to requirements". The integration of Rational DOORS and Rational Quality Manager enables teams to link requirements with test cases in order to measure the performance of the software/system against the business criticality of the requirements rather than the metrics of test results. Rational DOORS and Rational Quality Manager can help project teams to improve the overall quality of requirements and reduce rework through accurate requirements capture, full lifecycle communication and full test coverage. Project managers can improve time-to-deployment by discovering defects early in the test-cycle and predict more accurately when an application or system is of sufficient quality to release.
  
  As a role-based integration, the functionality focuses on providing the user with data and facilities inside their preferred environment. A test engineer using Rational Quality Manager has full access to Rational DOORS requirements to review and test against. Business analysts using Rational DOORS are able to monitor test progress against a defined set of requirements. Quality measures can now be taken from the requirements being tested by ensuring tests are being developed against the known requirements, and then ensuring that the tests have been successfully executed.
  
  Rational Quality Manager and Rational Composer are based on the Jazz Technology Platform. For more information about the Jazz Technology Platform, please visit the Jazz website.
  
  
• Installers
  
  The Rational DOORS client installer has been amended to allow users to choose whether to install just the Rational DOORS client, or to install the Rational DOORS client along with the Rational DOORS for Rational Quality Manager Interface client and/or server.
  
  The Rational DOORS database server installer has also been amended. You can now choose whether to install just the Rational DOORS database server, or to install the Rational DOORS database server along with the Rational DOORS server interface services, which allow Rational DOORS to interface with selected future integrations.
  
  
• Share and distribute information using direct HTTP URL to modules or objects
  
  As the volume of requirements increases, it is important to be able to identify and communicate specific requirements to team members. Using Web based technology there is an expectation that the standard technology of URLs will be used.
  
  The release of Rational DOORS v9.2 and Rational DOORS Web Access v1.2 gives project teams the ability to distribute information using direct HTTP URL access to Rational DOORS information. Team members can access Rational DOORS requirements directly by selecting a URL and choosing between using Rational DOORS or Rational DOORS Web Access. No local software is needed for new stakeholders to gain access to requirements.
  
  

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Defects fixed by patch version 9.2.0.5

For details of the defects fixed in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.5, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Defects fixed by patch version 9.2.0.4

For details of the defects fixed in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.4, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Defects fixed by patch version 9.2.0.3

For details of the defects fixed in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.3, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Defects fixed by patch version 9.2.0.2

For details of the defects fixed in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.2, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Defects fixed by patch version 9.2.0.1

RIF defects

Rational DOORS v9.2.0.1 fixes the defects that affected the implementation of RIF in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.0:

• Definitions of RIF packages are no longer limited to modules from a single folder location
• Layout DXL is transferred as read-only text
• Baselines are now supported
• Greater control of exported data is now available:
• Requirements activities can now be delegated
• Partners can now modify defined attributes within a module
• Partners can now modify defined object hierarchies within a module
• Partners can now manipulate links
• Partners can now modify defined attributes within a module
• Data can now be merged back into the original module locations


• The following dialog components are no longer disabled:
• On the RIF Definitions tab on Project Properties, the Recover and Imports buttons
• On the Edit RIF definition dialog has been redesigned
• On the Import RIF package dialog, the Use existing RIF Definition check box, and the RIF Definition Name, RIF Definition Description and RIF Import Package Description fields

For details of all the other fixed defects in Rational DOORS v9.2.0.1, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Known problems

For details of known problems in Rational DOORS, see the IBM Rational Information Center.

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Limitations

Spelling checker

There may be some languages supplied with the spelling checker, for example Russian that do not supply alternative text when errors are detected during a spelling check.

When you set up the options for checking spelling in certain languages, a Modes panel is displayed on the Options dialog box. In some languages the modes that are available are meaningless. For example, if the selected language is Russian, the modes Je and Jo are displayed.

These issues are a result of limitations in the third party software used by Rational DOORS to provide spelling checker capabilities.

Hidden text

Rational DOORS does not support hidden text. For example, if you copy text including hidden text from Microsoft Word and paste it into a Rational DOORS module, the text that is displayed in the module explorer is different to that displayed in the object.

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Contacting Support

Please visit our Telelogic support overview on the Rational software support site at: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/telelogic/.
You will find a one-sheet reference guide about how to best contact support in your geography.

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