Administering Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web Access
Learn how to set up your database, administer data using archives, partitions, and ReqIF
XML, manage users and groups, and configure the product so that it complies with the
security requirements for your environment.
- Setting up the database environment
Before you create data and users, plan how you want to set up the database and the user accounts. The topics in this section provide information about planning your database. - Locales and languages
The locale of your computer is your local language and the geographical location of your computer. For example, the locales French (France) and French (Canada) are distinct. Your locale determines how certain elements are displayed on your computer, for example the date format used by programs on your computer is derived from your locale. - Configuring the Rational DOORS database
- Options for managing users and groups
Rational® DOORS® users and groups can be managed locally or using the Rational Directory Server. If you use Rational Directory Server, you can only manage a limited amount of information using the Manage Users menu option in Rational DOORS. - Access rights
- Configuring Rational DOORS for server security
- Complying with security standards
- Configuring smart cards and certificates
- Configuring system user names
- Configuring Windows user authentication
- Configuring the Rational Directory Server
- Configuring the spell checker
- Configuring the registry and using command-line switches for the Rational DOORS client
- Data backups and archives
Use standard file system backup tools to back up the disk. Use IBM® Rational DOORS archives to make a backup of a module, a project, or information about users and groups to protect against accidental data loss. For example, if a user deletes and purges a project, you can restore the project from your archive. - Data partitions
Create partitions if you want to send data to users of a different Rational DOORS database to be viewed or edited and then returned to you. If you include data that will be edited by the users in the other database, the data is locked in your database until it is returned and rejoined, or recovered. - Exchanging requirements with other databases
You can exchange requirements data with other databases using the standard Requirements Interchange Formats. Rational DOORS supports two Requirements Interchange Formats: ReqIF and RIF. - Migrating data to Rational DOORS Next Generation
You can use a migration package to move data to IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation. - Validating imported and restored modules with checksum files
Checksum validation records are useful for comparing a copied, imported, or restored module with the original. During the comparison, you can identify changes to the text or other attribute values that are in the selected views. - Checking database integrity
Rational DOORS relies on the underlying integrity of the network to complete certain database operations. If contact between the client and the server is lost while Rational DOORS, the integrity of the database can be affected. - Using Rational DOORS to manage your testing
If your project has testing requirements that are not complex, you can manage testing in a Rational DOORS module. To perform this task you configure the module for test tracking. - Managing the Rational DOORS database server
You can set a password for the database server, start and stop the database server, check user connections, and use the command line to perform actions on the database server. - Performance tuning for the Rational DOORS database and client
You can improve the performance of the IBM Rational DOORS database and client by changing the hardware configuration and the requirements management artifacts and processes. - Log files for Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web Access
You can use log files to troubleshoot issues that occur in the IBM Rational DOORS database server, client, and interoperation server, and in the Rational DOORS Web Access server and message broker.
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