IBM® Rational® DOORS® Web Access, version 1.4.0.5 is available. Important compatibility, installation, upgrading, and other getting-started issues are addressed.
For the latest news and information about Rational DOORS Web Access, visit the
Rational Software Support site.
To run the Rational DOORS Web Access v1.4.0.5 server components, you need one of the following operating systems installed on your computer:
Note: Windows server machines must have 8.3 file names (also known as short file names) enabled.
Note: Linux machines must have a localhost alias set.
To run the Rational DOORS Web Access v1.4.0.5 web client you need one of the following browser and operating system combinations:
The Rational DOORS Web Access v1.4.0.4 web client does not run on Solaris.
You also need a Rational DOORS Web Access interoperation server (a Rational DOORS version 9.3.0.6 client), which must be installed on one of the following operating systems:
You also need a Rational DOORS version 9.2 or later database server, which must be installed on one of the following operating systems:
The minimum system requirements for a Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.5 server system are:
Depending on usage, a Rational DOORS Web Access server system may need more RAM than this. The server components can be distributed across several machines.
For current information about system requirements, see the System Requirements page on the Support website.
Any Windows locale.
For information about installing Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.x, see the topic entitled Installing Rational DOORS Web Access in the Rational DOORS information center.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Rational DOORS Web Access, clear the browser caches on client machines. There can be occasions when old resources, such as old versions of HTML pages can cause unexpected behavior.
In order to download and install Rational DOORS Web Access v1.4.0.5, your organization must have a license with valid maintenance and be running version 1.5 or 2.0 of the Rational License Server TL. If you try to use Rational DOORS Web Access without a license, the system automatically tries to obtain a standard Rational DOORS license instead.
For information about how to obtain a license from IBM, and how to install the Rational License Server TL, see the Rational License Server TL Licensing Guide in the Rational License Server TL information center.
Although this version of Rational DOORS Web Access is compatible with the Rational DOORS database server version 9.2 or later, the Rational DOORS Web Access interoperation server must be version 9.3.0.6.
Patch number |
Client or server |
Public or limited availability |
Cumulative |
Fix packs incorporated |
---|---|---|---|---|
1.4.0.1 |
Windows client; all server platforms |
Public |
Not applicable |
Not applicable |
1.4.0.2 |
Windows client; all server platforms |
Public |
Yes |
1.4.0.1 |
1.4.0.3 |
Windows client; all server platforms |
Public |
Yes |
1.4.0.1 and 1.4.0.2 |
1.4.0.4 |
Windows client; all server platforms |
Public |
Yes |
1.4.0.1, 1.4.0.2, and 1.4.0.3 |
1.4.0.5 |
Windows client; all server platforms |
Public |
Yes |
1.4.0.1, 1.4.0.2, 1.4.0.3, and 1.4.0.4 |
You can apply this fix pack to any previous version of Rational DOORS Web Access. You can also install this fix pack on a system where Rational DOORS Web Access has not previously been installed.
Rational Workbench for Collaborative Lifecycle Management allows you to create links to other applications. Cross-product links support traceability across project repositories in different applications.
You can now filter requirements on attribute values and links.
If you try to use Rational DOORS Web Access without a license, the system now tries to obtain a standard Rational DOORS license instead.
To respond to the increased needs of the business and IT community for localized versions of Rational DOORS Web Access, IBM Rational has expanded its current offerings in English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and now offers additional languages: French, German, and Russian.
Rational DOORS Web Access now runs with Safari 4 on all supported platforms.
When a user creates a collaboration link from a requirement in Rational DOORS Web Access to an artifact in a third-party project, a link from the artifact is created pointing back to the requirement.
You can create a collaboration link from a module view to an artifact in a third-party project.
Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.1 includes a number of user interface enhancements.
Rational DOORS Web Access now offers additional languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.
You can configure the Rational DOORS database server so that users can access it using smart cards. Rational DOORS uses public key infrastructure (PKI) and common access card (CAC) authentication to verify that users are allowed to access the Rational DOORS database server. This functionality has now been extended to Rational DOORS Web Access. If your system is using smart card authentication for access, you can now use the same method to access Rational DOORS Web Access.
You can now configure Rational DOORS Web Access to use a single URL format. Instead of the different
URLS that are currently created, you can now set up your system to create the single URL "rational" by
running dbadmin with new parameters (-dwaProtocol, -dwaHost, and -dwaPort).
When you use the new dbadmin parameters, existing URLs are still recognized.
Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.2 includes a number of user interface enhancements.
Rational DOORS Web Access version 1.4.0.3 contains fixes to two defects. For details, see the Fix List for IBM Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.
When Rational DOORS Web Access is released, a new version of the interoperation server is included in the release, and used by default as the interoperation server when you run the system. Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.4 introduces functionality to allow you to configure your system to use an earlier version.
Because this functionality has been introduced in this version, you cannot use a version of the interoperation server earlier than v9.3.0.4. You will only be able to take advantage of this functionality in later versions of the software.
Rational DOORS Web Access is released with a default set of logging properties. A file is
now included called
\server\festival\config\festival-log4j.xml.support. This file
contains instructions on how to set up improved logging if you need to contact Rational
DOORS Web Access support.
You can set up Rational DOORS Web Access to respect the indent settings that are saved in views in Rational DOORS.
Rational DOORS Web Access now respects the column Color by attribute setting in Rational DOORS.
Rational DOORS Web Access includes Apache Tomcat in the installer. The version of Apache Tomcat that is now delivered is 6.0.32.
Rational DOORS Web Access now runs on SUSE Linux 11.
Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.4 includes a number of user interface enhancements.
The Rational DOORS Web Access information center is now available in Russian.
Rational DOORS Web Access version 1.4.0.5 contains defect fixes.
For details of the fixed defects in Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4 fix packs, see the Fix List for IBM Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.
To learn about the known limitations and problems in this update and any workarounds that are available, see Known problems in Rational DOORS Web Access 1.4.0.5.
The Rational DOORS URL format can be changed to have the prefix "http" or "https" (rather than "doors"). Setting this URL format is required in order to use the Redirector Service, an optional service that allows users to choose whether to open Rational DOORS URLs in a standard Rational DOORS client or in a web client, and it is also required in order to use OSLC web services to integrate Rational DOORS with Rational Team Concert. However, it should be noted that by changing the URL prefix in this way, the Rational DOORS for Rational Quality Manager Interface no longer works, since that integration depends on the "doors" URL prefix.
Rational DOORS Web Access does not support triggers or DXL scripts that display dialog boxes. Consequently, Rational DOORS Web Access does not support Rational Change for DOORS Interface, which depends on triggers.
The system user name login policy for Rational DOORS databases is not supported with Rational DOORS Web Access.
Please visit our Telelogic support overview on the Rational software support website 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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