DOORS Integration

Hello, I tried to import a simple simulink Model from MATLAB to DOORS. In our company, the DOORS is installed in a common network Drive(K:\ Drive). When I tried to import, it gave the error as

"Failed to Verify DOORS API Version"

"MATLAB cannot find the DOORS Automation Server. You must have "Edit DXL" access privileges in your DOORS login Account to use the DOORS Interface. Please contact your DOORS Administrator."

Even though I have access to write DXL Scripts in "Edit DXL", but it throws the error. Can someone help me in decoding the error message and point me where I went wrong.

Thanks Matthew

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I am unfamiliar with that product, but I notice that you have it installed on a common network drive. Is the implication that you did not install DOORS directly on the machine you are attempting from? If so, then it is likely that the DOORS COM server is not registered in your machine's registry.

I have no idea what registry keys DOORS needs or which program sets them up.

There have been sort-of-similar problems come up in the past with Windows 7 and UAC, where even though MATLAB was fully installed on a local machine, people could not use its automation server mode because MATLAB was not registered locally as an automation server, a step that requires running the MATLAB COM registration server installation once as Administrator. I know this is not exactly the same, but the point is that having the software accessible is not enough for accessing an automation server: an administrator needs to bash the appropriate key in to the registry somehow

Answer 2

[MATTHEW ROBERT AUGUSTINE]

Yes, the DOORS is installed in a common folder in network drive. Any idea of the setting for the registry...

[Walter Roberson]

Uggh. IBM Rational product documentation!

You are in a twisty maze of useless little software manuals, all alike. Directions from here are: Back, Up, and Quit.

(At least that's what it is like when you do not already have a license for the IBM Rational software. All of the useful information is web-locked.)