Importing Rational System Architect encyclopedia contents

If you want to import IBM® Rational® System Architect encyclopedia contents into IBM Rational Rhapsody® for future development, use the System Architect Importer with a map to define the structure.

About this task

To import the contents from a Rational System Architect encyclopedia:

Procedure

  1. Open Rational System Architect and load any encyclopedia.
  2. Open Rational Rhapsody and open a project to receive the imported contents.
  3. In Rational Rhapsody, select Tools > Import from Rational System Architect.
  4. In the first import window, you might select either All Definitions or the Diagrams. You cannot select both definitions and diagrams. If you want to select the Diagrams, you might select all the diagrams with a check before the Diagrams option or open the Diagrams tree and select specific diagram types. Click Next.
  5. Select the Rational Rhapsody package where the imported elements belong in your Rational Rhapsody project. Click Next.
  6. In the final import window, select the name of the map you want to use for structuring the imported elements. The descriptions of the map files display below the selection field. See Rational System Architect type mappings to Rational Rhapsody for more information about the default maps.
  7. Click Import.

Results

Imported diagrams are automatically populated and show the relationships among elements, listed as Dependencies.


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