Release notes - IBM Rational DOORS, version 9.3.0.4

IBM® Rational® DOORS®, version 9.3.0.4 is available. Important compatibility, installation, upgrading, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

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

System requirements

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

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

You must also consider the following requirements for your system:

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

For current information about system requirements, see the System Requirements page on the Support website.

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Operating system locales supported by Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4

Any Windows locale.

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Compatible products

The following integrations are built into the Rational DOORS client installer:

The following Rational products are compatible using the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management:

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Installing Rational DOORS 9.3.0.x

If you already have Rational DOORS, the version that you have does not affect the way in which Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4 is installed. In all cases Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4 is installed into a new directory named Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.3 by default. After successful installation, if your current version of Rational DOORS is version 9.0 or after, it is removed from your system. If your current version is prior to version 9.0, it remains on your system.

Important: If you have customized the addins.idx file, back it up before you upgrade. When you upgrade to Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4, the current version of addins.idx is overwritten.

Note: When you install the Rational DOORS client on a Japanese language operating system, you must accept the default location.

If you are upgrading from 9.0, 9.1, or 9.2 you cannot install Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4 into the same directory as your current Rational DOORS installation. If you try to do this the installation will fail.

Upgrading your integrations

When you upgrade from version 9.0, 9.1, or 9.2, and you want to run your integrations with Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4, you need to uninstall and then reinstall them. There are a number of changes to the process you need to follow:

For information about installing and upgrading Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4, see the Installation information in the Rational DOORS information center.

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Installing the Rational DOORS example data

If you already have a Rational DOORS example data for a previous version of Rational DOORS installed on your machine, remove it before you install the Rational DOORS 9.3.0.4 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 information.

Note: If you install the Rational Directory Server and the Rational DOORS client on the same machine, you cannot use the Rational Directory Server in secure mode.

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Obtaining a license for Rational DOORS

If this is your first installation of Rational DOORS, you need to 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 or version 8.1.1 of the Rational License Key Server.

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. For information about the Rational License Key Server, see the Rational Common Licensing information.

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:

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About Rational DOORS 9.3 fix packs

Patch number

Client or server

Public or limited availability

Cumulative

Fix packs incorporated

9.3.0.1

Windows client; all server platforms

Public

Not applicable

Not applicable

9.3.0.2

Windows client; all server platforms

Public

Yes

9.3.0.1

9.3.0.3

Windows client; all server platforms

Public

Yes

9.3.0.1 and 9.3.0.2

9.3.0.4

Windows client; all server platforms

Public

Yes

9.3.0.1, 9.3.0.2, and 9.3.0.3

When the fix pack is installed, and you subsequently 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 9.3.0.4 is a client fix pack for Rational DOORS 9.3 on Windows and a server fix pack for Rational DOORS 9.3 on all platforms.

You can apply this fix pack to a machine that already has a previous version of Rational DOORS. If you have 9.x already installed, it is overwritten, and Rational DOORS is upgraded. If it is an earlier version (for example, v8.x or v7.x), v9.3.0.4 is installed in parallel with your current version.

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

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What's new in version 9.3.0.0

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What's new in 9.3.0.1

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What's new in 9.3.0.2

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What's new in 9.3.0.3

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What's new in 9.3.0.4

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Defects fixed by the 9.3 fix packs

For details of the fixed defects in the Rational DOORS 9.3 fix packs, see the Fix List for IBM Rational DOORS 9.3.

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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 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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