You can integrate the Design
Management capabilities
of Rational® Software Architect
with other Rational products such as IBM® Rational DOORS®, IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, IBM Rational System Architect and
products in the Rational solution for
Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM).
About this task
There are several advantages to integrating
Design
Management capabilities
with other Rational products:
- Traceability between designs, requirements, test artifacts, and
work items in lifecycle management projects.
- Ability to plan and deliver solutions with Open Services for Lifecycle
Collaboration - Change Management (OSLC-CM) providers such as the
change and the configuration management and the requirements management
applications in the Rational solution for CLM.
- Ability to easily view and understand how potential changes to
designs or requirements can impact projects.
As the following diagram illustrates, several key steps
are involved in integrating design artifacts with other lifecycle
artifacts:
- If the Design Management Server is
a different server than the Jazz™ Team Server that
hosts the other lifecycle applications, you must ensure that the two
servers are set up as friends.
- After you create a Design
Management project
and configure the workspace, you must set up associations between
the design project and related projects.
- In order to create links between resources, link types must be
defined. Design
Management provides
a set of predefined link types that make it easy to set up a project.
