Setting up Engineering Lifecycle Management applications to use local configurations

In IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management, the IBM DOORS® Next and Engineering Test Management applications require an application administrator to activate configuration management by using a key and to enable the project areas for configurations. The Engineering Workflow Management and Architecture Management (AM) applications support configuration management by default and do not require activation. However, you must still enable individual AM project areas to use configurations.

Before you begin

Ensure that you are familiar with the concepts explained in Configuration management: Concepts and capabilities.
You must have Jazz Administrator privileges.

About this task

If your project does not have configuration management capabilities enabled, you can still create baselines of your project area at important project milestones, but you cannot include these baselines in global configurations.

Procedure

Generate an activation key at https://jazz.net/products/clm/cm/get-key.

Note: The configuration management capabilities of the RM, QM, and Global Configuration Management applications are added services for IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management as SaaS and IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management SaaS customer environments and must be enabled only by the SaaS provider. The source-control management (SCM) feature in Engineering Workflow Management is included in Cloud offerings at no additional cost.
Activate configuration management in the Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next and Engineering Test Management applications by using that key.
Enable configuration management in the AM, RM, and Engineering Test Management project areas that require configurations.

You do not need to enable all AM, RM, and Engineering Test Management project areas. If your Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next or QM project areas are linked to other Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next or Engineering Test Management project areas, enable either all or none of the linked project areas for configuration management.
If your project will use global configurations and you are familiar with the Global Configuration Management application, see Overview of Global Configurations.

Global configurations provide a view of all the artifacts that are contained in a set of related local configurations, and are managed by the Global Configuration Management application. To learn more about global configurations, see this overview.