IBM® Rational® DOORS® Web Access, version 1.5.0.1 is available. These release notes contain important information about compatibility, installation, upgrades, and getting started.
For the latest news and information about Rational DOORS Web Access, visit the
Rational Software Support site.
To run the Rational DOORS Web Access v1.5.0.1 server components, one of these operating systems must be installed on your computer:
Important: Due to a limitation on the Jazz UI widget library, Windows server machines must have 8.3 file names which are also known as short file names enabled.
Note: Linux machines must have a localhost alias set.
To run the Rational DOORS Web Access v1.5 web client you need one of the following browser and operating system combinations:
The Rational DOORS Web Access v1.5.0.1 web client does not run on Solaris.
You also need a Rational DOORS Web Access interoperation server (a Rational DOORS version 9.4 client), which must be installed on one of the following operating systems:
A Rational DOORS version 9.2 or later database server, must be installed on one of these operating systems:
The minimum system requirements for a Rational DOORS Web Access 1.5.0.1 server system are as follows:
Depending on usage, a Rational DOORS Web Access server system might need more RAM. The server components can be distributed across several machines.
For current information about system requirements, see the System Requirements page on the Support website.
Rational DOORS Web Access version 1.5.0.1 supports any Windows locale.
For information about installing Rational DOORS Web Access 1.5.0.1, see the topic entitled Installing Rational DOORS Web Access in the Rational DOORS information center.
For information about the minimum recommended installations for Rational DOORS Web Access, see this article on the IBM developerWorks website.
For information about load balancing Rational DOORS Web Access, see this article on the IBM developerWorks website.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Rational DOORS Web Access, clear the browser caches on all client machines. There can be occasions when old resources, such as old versions of HTML pages can cause unexpected behavior.
The Apache Tomcat server.xml file has a configuration fragment that specifically mentions a code library that is no longer in use as of version 1.5.0.1. When this library was removed, the corresponding configuration fragment was also removed. However, if an old server.xml file is used, globalized text will be displayed as a generic ICU error message, and the following exception will be displayed in the festival-tomcat.log file:
SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/caf]
Throwable occurred: java.io.FileNotFoundException: <path to dwa>\server\webapps\caf.war (The system cannot find the file specified.)
If you experience this issue you will need to edit the SERVER.XML file and remove the following set of lines:
<Context crossContext="true" debug="0" docBase="caf.war" path="/caf" reloadable="true">
<Valve className="com.telelogic.dwa.catalina.valve.GlobalisationRequestInterceptor"/>
</Context>
In order to download and install Rational DOORS Web Access v1.5.0.1, your organization must have a license with valid maintenance and be running version 8.1.2 of the Rational License Key Server. If you try to use Rational DOORS Web Access without a Rational DOORS Web Access 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 Key Server, see the Managing licenses with Rational Common Licensing.
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 9.4.0.1. Please note that this does not impact what version of the Rational DOORS desktop client is used to connect to the Rational DOORS Database Server. The two are unrelated.
Rational DOORS Web Access makes additional use of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) to improve product integrations and team collaboration across job roles and engineering and development domains.
This release extends OSLC integrations to Change Management, Quality Management, Design Management, and other Requirement Management systems.
With OSLC-RM 2.0, you can search or query on the module level and execute DOORS DXL scripts across HTTP.
In Rational DOORS Web Access you can view electronic signatures and electronically sign baselines.
Rational DOORS Web Access 1.5.0.0 includes a number of user interface enhancements.
All Rational DOORS Web Access non-operational messages (i.e. info, warning and error content) now have their own unique identifier and are available for comment and feedback on the DOORS Info Centre.
You can use the Tracked Resource Set (TRS) protocol to expose a set of resources so that clients can work with resources in these ways:
The protocol does not assume that clients will dereference the resources.
The protocol is suitable for dealing with large sets of resources and highly active resource sets that frequently change.
The protocol is HTTP-based and follows RESTful principles.
With the consumption of OSLC AM 2.0, Rational DOORS Web Access can integrate with both Rational Rhapsody Design Manager and the Design Management capabilities in Rational Software Architect.
For details of the fixed defects in Rational DOORS Web Access 1.5.0.1, see the Fix List for IBM Rational DOORS Web Access 1.5.
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 1.5.
Rational DOORS Web Access does not support triggers.
Due to the integration's dependency on triggers, Rational DOORS Web Access does not support Rational Change for DOORS Interface.
Rational DOORS Web Access does not support the System User Name login policy for Rational DOORS databases.
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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