Download an asset to view, evaluate, or work with the artifacts
for that asset.
Before you begin
Your role must have the appropriate permission to download
assets.
Important: Some web browsers cannot download
files that are larger than 2 GB. For more information about limitations
on downloading large files in Internet Explorer, see
Microsoft Support article #298618.
IBM® Rational® Asset Manager encodes .zip files
with UTF-8 character encoding. To avoid corrupting data, use an extraction
utility that supports UTF-8 encoding.
About this task
When you download an asset, you save it on your local
system so that you can modify or reuse the contents of the asset.
This action yields the same results at importing an asset in the Eclipse
client.
Procedure
- To download a .zip file that contains
all of the artifacts of an asset, on the General Details page of that
asset, click Download this Asset. The .zip file
contains these artifacts:
- The asset attachments, including images.
- A manifest.rmd file, which is an XML text
file that contains information about the asset.
- The translations for the artifacts, which are located in the com.ibm.ram.data/nl folder.
Alternately, you can choose to download assets with the download
manager to improve performance for downloading large files. Click
the arrow in the Download this Asset box to
view and then select Use download manager.
A Java™ applet opens, and the
asset is downloaded to a default directory (user.home). To change
the location, you can Browse and change it,
and download the asset again or download other assets to the new location.
- To download a specific artifact of an asset without downloading
the entire asset:
- From the General Details page of the asset, click Content.
- Locate the artifact to download. You can
search for an artifact by entering a keyword in the Artifact
search field.
- Click the name of the artifact to download, and save
the file on your local system. To download specific artifacts with
the download manager, click the Add artifact to download
manager icon in the Actions column.