Use the tree view to see a hierarchy of configurations from this and other contributing
IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management
(Engineering Lifecycle Management) applications. You can also sort configurations by name or contribution order (to fix
unintentional component skew). A configuration that gathers configurations from across applications
is called a global configuration.
Before you begin
You must first create a configuration in an Engineering Lifecycle Management application to add it
to a global configuration. For example, to support a release, you might create a requirements
configuration in the IBM DOORS® Next application, a test configuration in the Engineering Test Management application, or a model configuration in the Architecture Management (AM)
application. In the Global Configuration Management application, you can then add the configurations to the
global configuration.
About this task
In the
Global Configuration Management tree you, you can complete the following tasks:
- See a collection of configurations from Engineering Lifecycle Management
applications as a single, logical unit.
- Create a product variant.
- Move, reorder, remove, or reuse configurations.
- Add a change set to test insulated changes without delivering the changes to a shared
stream.
Procedure
-
From the Home menu
, choose a Global Configuration Management project area.

Browse to configurations in one of these ways:
After you select the global configuration, it opens in the hierarchical tree view.

By default, the tree view shows configurations in the position they were manually added or moved
to. In this view, you can move configurations to resolve component skew or to group them.
To find configurations by listing them alphabetically, on the toolbar
in the tree view, click Sort View (
) and click Name. You can't move a configuration in this view; to do
that, switch to Contribution Order. Configurations with the same name are shown in their
contribution order: the position they were manually added or moved to.
If you are troubleshooting because the Current Configuration menu in your
Engineering Lifecycle Management
application does not show the local configuration that you expected, read Selecting a
configuration to work in. If you have already read that document and you need information
about reordering configurations because of the results of a component skew report, see Unexpected local configuration in Current Configuration menu.
- You can set a bookmark to the Global Configuration Management application and then
open it in your browser by using the bookmark.
What to do next
The following topics show ways that you might want to
use a configuration after you view it.