This 2-day course teaches the basic principles of writing and applying the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS extension language (DXL) to customize IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS.

This course is also applicable for users of IBM DOORS 9.4 and 9.6. It supersedes QN301G.

Objectives: 

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Process projects, folders, modules, and objects
• Process traceability
• Process history
• Process access rights
• Process views and view settings
• Create customized Attribute and Layout DXL
• Create customized menus
• Develop additional user interfaces

Participants: 

Experienced IBM Rational DOORS users who want to customize IBM Rational DOORS

Skill Level: Advanced

Prerequisites: 

You should have:

• Knowledge of structured procedural programming, preferably in C
• Proficiency in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS

Topics: 

1. About this course
2. DXL Fundamentals
3. Product Architecture
4. Reporting information
5. File Input/Output (I/O) Operations
6. Dialog Boxes
7. History, Discussions and Access
8. DXL Libraries
9. Customizing Menus
10. Advanced DXL