License management overview

Licensing for the Design Management Server is role-based. When you purchase a role-based license for the Design Management Server, you receive access to some or all of the Design Management capabilities.

Client access licenses

When you install the Design Management Server, you deploy the Design Management features, in addition to the Jazz™ Team Server. You then use activation kits to install client access licenses on the Jazz Team Server and assign these licenses to users so that they can access the Design Management capabilities.

A client access license for a particular role provides read, write, and comment access to some or all of the available capabilities.

You install the client access license activation kits on the Jazz Team Server, on the Administration page, in the License Key Management section. You assign the licenses to users in the Client Access License Management section of Jazz User Administration.

For more information on client access licenses, see the related information links below.

Role-based client access licenses

The roles in the following table correspond to the client access licenses that you can purchase for Design Management Server. There are three role-based licenses that provide access to the capabilities in the Design Management:
  • Contributor - For extended team members who need to collaborate on models and designs. The Rational Software Architect Contributor license has the same capabilities as the Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer Contributor licenses.
  • Designer - (used within Rational Software Architect) and Design Manager (used within Rational Rhapsody) - For design practitioners using Rational Software Architect or Rational Rhapsody to create models and designs. This practitioner license has additional access to some of the capabilities from the Change and Configuration Management, Requirements Management, and Quality Management applications; similar to the Contributor client access license.
  • Design Reviewer - For extended team members who need to collaborate on models and designs but do not need access to the additional to capabilities from Change and Configuration Management, Requirements Management, and Quality Management applications that is provided by the Contributor license. This license is no longer sold with Rational Software Architect. Existing users with Rational Software Architect Design Reviewer licenses can use those licenses with the 4.0 version of Design Management Server; new users should use the Contributor license.
Jazz Team Server Contributor Designer
View and search designs X X
Commenting and markup X X
Lifecycle traceability X X
Work item tracking X X
Planning: agile, formal, hybrid X X
Generate documents X X
Dashboards X X
Setup design reviews   X
Import designs   X
Edit design resources   X
Design workspace management   X
Create design baselines   X

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