Before you begin using configurations and global configurations

Read instructions to help you complete required steps before you can begin using configurations and global configurations.

Setting up Engineering Lifecycle Management applications to use local configurations
In IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management, the Requirements Management (RM) and Quality Management (QM) applications require an application administrator to activate configuration management by using a key and to enable the project areas for configurations.
Setting up global configurations
Application administrators can use the following information to understand what to configure and where to configure it so that Global Configuration Management (GCM) works with the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (Engineering Lifecycle Management) applications that are enabled for configuration management.

Parent topic: Configurations: Global and local

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