Adding data sources for configurations
Inconsistent type definitions across project areas make reports difficult to reuse and can produce unexpected results, such as duplicate attributes. To prevent this scenario, you can create a data source based on a specific configuration to ensure that a specific version of the type system (custom attributes, types, links, enumerations) is used for reporting. When building and running reports, team members see only the types from the configuration for the data source.
When team members build reports that use a configuration-specific data source, the type definitions in that configuration are used for fetching report results.
- Reporting on applications that have versioned type systems, such as IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
- Sharing type definitions across Global Configuration Management project areas
- Importing properties from another IBM DOORS Next project area or component
Before you begin
- On the Data Sources page, ensure that at least one Lifecycle Query Engine scoped by a configuration data source exists.
- You must be familiar how the global configurations in a project area are related.
Procedure
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In a browser window, open the Setup page at
https://server:port/rs/setup -
Click the Administration icon
on the
product banner and select Data Sources or click Data
Sources in the Connect to data sources pane.
- In the list of data sources, click a Lifecycle Query Engine scoped by a configuration data source.
- In the Advanced section, click Create a configuration-scoped data source.
- Follow the prompts to choose the configuration to report on, and click Choose.
- Configure the remaining data source properties to suit the needs of your project.
- Click Save.
Results
When team members build reports based on this data source, they'll see only the types that belong to the configuration that you choose. To ensure accurate results when they run reports, they must choose a configuration that is related to the configuration that the data source is based on. For example, if the data source was created by using the Engine_v2.0_Baseline1 baseline, when they run their report they must choose a configuration that can be traced back to Engine_v2.0_Baseline1.
Team members can group reports by data source on the My Reports and All Reports pages by choosing the Group by data source option from the list on the toolbar.