Integrating DOORS and Architecture Management

You can configure IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS) to integrate with Engineering Rhapsody Design Manager (DMR) and the Architecture 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 Architecture Management Server.

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

By integrating DOORS with Architecture 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 Architecture 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:
  • Configuring DWA to use OSLC.
  • Add the Architecture Management Server to the remote services list in the DOORS database, as described in Configuring DOORS to use OSLC.
  • Configure the Architecture Management Server to communicate with DOORS. See "Integrating Architecture Management with DOORS" in the RDM documentation or the Rational Software Architect Design Manager documentation. The configuration tasks in Architecture Management involve these tasks:
    • Configuring communication between Architecture Management and DOORS by establishing cross-server communication to the DOORS repository
    • Associating design projects with DOORS projects
    • Deploying predefined link types that team members can use for the integration

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


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