In IBM® Rational® Focal Point™,
you can link to requirements or create requirements that are added
in project areas in a Rational solution
for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. You can
also search for and view the requirements in a CLM application project.
Before you begin
- A workspace administrator must configure a module to contain a
CLM attribute that defines the link to artifacts in a Requirements
Management application. For example, the module can be named Business
needs. For more information, see Adding and configuring attributes for storing links to artifacts in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications.
- You must have a user account in the CLM application.
- To publish elements to the Rational solution for CLM applications
version 4.0, you must add the com.ibm.rdm.fronting.server.AllowOSLCPutWithOutIfMatchHeader=true parameter
in the CLM_install_folder/server/conf/rm(context path)fronting.properties file.
Make sure to set this property even after you reinstall Rational solution for CLM.
Restriction: If the combined length
of the characters for the Title and Description attributes exceed
2000 characters, when creating artifacts on the Rational solution for CLM applications,
you must copy the content of the Title and Description to the title
and description fields of artifact manually.
Procedure
- In Rational Focal Point,
open the element that has the Integration Link attribute to link from.
- In the row of the Integration Link attribute, click the Edit icon
.
- To link to a requirement in the CLM application, click Select.
- The first time you link to a requirement, specify your
user ID and password for the CLM application.
- In the "Requirement selection" window,
search for the requirement or requirement collection.
- In the search results, select one or more requirements
to link to.
- Click OK. The
requirement titles and numbers are listed in the attribute row.
Click the requirements titles to verify that the links
are correct.
- To
create and link to a new requirement, click Create New.
- Specify your user ID and password for the CLM application.
- In the "Requirement Creation" window,
add the requirement or requirement collection details. Specify the
mandatory attributes for the requirement. Depending on
the attribute configuration, the description field might be populated
with the description from the element.
- Click OK. The
requirement title and number are listed in the attribute row of the
source element.
- Click the requirement titles to verify that the links are
displayed in the Requirement Management application and that links
back to the element exist.
- Click Save
to save the attribute value for the element. Tip: To view the requirement details, hover the
cursor over the title of the requirement that is listed as the attribute
value.