Archiving and restoring configurations
You can archive streams and baselines that are no longer in use so that they are not shown in the list of configurations. Archiving a configuration does not delete it; configurations cannot be deleted. Restore configurations to make them available for use by you or other team members.
Before you begin
- Ensure that you are familiar with project areas, components (if supported), baselines, streams, and change sets (if supported).
- Ensure that you are logged in to a project.
- Configuration management capabilities must be enabled for the project.
- You must have permission to archive configurations.
About this task
- Archiving a configuration removes it from the list of active configurations. It is common to
archive a configuration when team members no longer work in it, or if the configuration is not a
flow target for other configurations.
For example, you might archive a baseline that was created for a review, when the baseline is no longer required.
Note: You can archive all the configurations of a component at the same time by archiving the component. See the related topics. - If the configuration is part of a global configuration, the tree view in the Global Configuration Management application shows a warning indicating that the local configuration is missing. You can either remove it from the tree view or replace it with another local configuration.
- You cannot permanently delete components, streams, and baselines because artifacts reference these items. Removing the references would cause unexpected results.
- Except for the IBM® Engineering Test Management application, you cannot archive a baseline if another configuration has a dependency on it, or you cannot archive a stream that is the flow target of another configuration.
- Archived items are not included in search and query results and Report Builder reports.
IBM Engineering Test Management application
Archive items by using the Delete task. You can restore them from the Trash view later if you need them again.
Procedure
IBM DOORS Next application
Archive and restore configurations from the configuration editor.