Integrating with the Change and Configuration Management application

The diagram in this topic shows the tasks to integrate with and use the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) application in the Rational® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM).
Figure 1. Interactive diagram of the integration with the CCM application
The diagram shows
the integration steps, beginning with setting up the integration,
through either creating links to a CLM application project or exporting
a project to a CLM application project, to finally updating or importing
data from the CLM application project. CLM administrator role: Click this area to get information about registering RFP as a friend in the CLM application configuration. Before you can preview IBM Rational Focal Point elements from an application of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), you must register Rational Focal Point as an outbound friend in the CLM application configuration. Global administrator role: Click this area to get information about configuring consumer authentication. To preview linked elements from an application for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), you must be a member of the workspace. If you are an administrator, you can authorize users of a CLM application to preview linked elements without logging on to IBM Rational Focal Point. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about configuring a preview view for linked elements. To enable users of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) to preview elements in IBM Rational Focal Point, you must configure a preview view for the linked elements module. You select or create a view that includes only the attributes that are suitable for preview from a CLM application. When the selected view is displayed, it is read-only. CLM administrator role: Click this area to get information about registering RFP as a consumer in the CLM application configuration. Before you can link to artifacts in application project areas of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), you must register IBM Rational Focal Point as an incoming consumer in the CLM application server. Global administrator role: Click this area to get information about setting up cross-server communication with CLM application servers. If you are an global administrator, you can set up the integration with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application servers. For IBM Rational Focal Point and the CLM applications to communicate, you must establish an OAuth key for each application to access the servers. Also, you must create friend relationships to manage the list of cooperating servers. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about setting up CALM link attributes. To link to artifacts in a Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application, you must create a CALM link attribute and configure it with allowed service providers and project areas to create links to. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about view commands. View commands allow you to change many artifacts with a single click, instead of repeating the same operation for every element. If you are a workspace administrator, you can set up view commands to handle bulk operations for artifacts linked from IBM Rational Focal Point in Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) applications. With a view command, you can link and create artifacts, remove links to artifacts, restore links to artifacts or export a project and create corresponding work items. You must set up view commands in a view that contains linked elements, for example a project view or release view. Regular user role: Click this area to get information about creating and viewing work items from an element. In IBM Rational Focal Point, you can link to work items or create work items that are added in project areas in a Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. You can also search for and view work items in a CLM application project. Regular user role: Click this area to get information about creating a number of work items from linked elements in a project. In IBM Rational Focal Point, you can create and link to work items that correspond to elements in a bulk operation. You can handle many elements in one operation instead of publishing elements one by one. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about importing data from the CLM application project.You can update project information and related business needs from a Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) system for all integration attributes that are specified for the project. Workspace administrator role: Click this area to get information about configuring attributes for project exportAfter a project with the required business needs is finalized in IBM Rational Focal Point, you can export the project to a Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) system for project execution. When you export a project to a CLM system, a project area is created, and work items are created for each business need. You can synchronize with the CLM system at regular intervals to view the project status. Regular user role: Click this area to get information about exporting projects to the CLM application projectYou can export a project and its related business needs from IBM Rational Focal Point to a Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) system for project execution. The export creates a project area and work items for each business need. A link to the new project is created and displayed in Rational Focal Point. Regular user role: Click this area to get information about fetching information from work items. You can retrieve details about artifacts, such as their total estimate value and time spent values from a work item, by using the XPathValueFetcher business rule. The XPathValueFetcher business rule queries artifacts in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application .

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