So we're on IBM DOORS. has been the tool for years. auditors are happy with it, management won't touch it, engineers hate it with a passion that honestly impresses me

we do embedded systems in a regulated space so we can't just throw it out for something lightweight. we need real traceability, supplier collaboration (giving external parties access to requirement packages without opening the whole system), proper V&V linking, and an approval workflow that doesn't make people want to quit

I've been looking at Jama, Polarion, codeBeamer, a couple others. haven't pulled the trigger on anything. curious what people who've actually gone through a DOORS migration think and was it worth it, what would you do differently, are there things you miss about DOORS that you didn't expect to

also how bad is the ReqIF export path in practice? heard mixed things