Integrating DOORS and Design Management

You can configure IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS) to integrate with IBM Rational® Rhapsody® Design Manager (Rational Rhapsody Design Manager) and the Design Management capabilities in IBM Rational Software Architect (Rational Software Architect) by using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) linking.
Restriction: To configure the integration, you must have database manager privileges or custom user permissions to manage the database in DOORS. You must also have Jazz™ Administrator privileges on the Design Management Server.

The Design Management solution provides web-based, collaborative tools that are based on Jazz technology. Teams can use the Design Management capabilities to integrate design into the overall systems engineering and application lifecycles and collaborate on models and designs.

By integrating DOORS with Design Management, you can link requirements and requirements-related artifacts to design artifacts. You can use models to elaborate the design, structure, and relationships between development artifacts. Stakeholders can collaborate on designs and ensure that they are relevant and aligned with business and design requirements. You can create and view links in both Design Management and DOORS. When you hover your cursor over the links, you can view a summary of the linked artifacts or resources.

OSLC is a set of specifications for linking and viewing artifacts across the software development lifecycle. To enable communication between the applications, you must do these tasks:

For information about integrating directly with IBM Rational Rhapsody (Rational Rhapsody) with a non-OSLC interface, see the help for integrating with Design Management in the Rational Rhapsody documentation.


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