Retiring assets

If an asset can no longer be reused, you can retire the asset to limit who can find and download it.

Before you begin

To retire an asset, you must be a lifecycle manager for that asset.

You can retire an asset from any state of any lifecycle. When you retire an asset it enters a separate lifecycle, which has two states:

Pre-Retired: The Pre-Retired state copies the permissions, lifecycle managers, and reviewers from the state of the lifecycle that the asset was in before it entered the Pre-Retired state. All owners, lifecycle managers, reviewers, owners of related assets, and anyone that has downloaded the asset will receive an email that the asset has entered the Pre-Retired state.
Retired: When an asset is in the Retired state, only administrators and lifecycle managers can find or download the asset.

Log in to the IBM® Rational® Asset Manager web client.
Click My Dashboard.
In the Assets to Manage section, click the name of the asset.
The General Details page for the asset opens.
From the Actions list in the upper-left of the General Details page, select Retire.
Click Apply.
The asset will enter the Pre-retired state in the Implicit Retire Asset Lifecycle workflow. The Pre-Retired state copies the permissions, lifecycle managers, and reviewers from the state of the lifecycle that the asset was in before it entered the Pre-Retired state. All owners, lifecycle managers, reviewers, owners of related assets, and anyone that has downloaded the asset will receive an email that the asset has entered the Pre-Retired state.

After the asset is in the Implicit Retire Asset Lifecycle workflow, you can manage the asset in the following ways:

To restore an asset from either the Pre-Retired and Retired states, from the Actions list select Restore; then, click Apply. When you restore the asset, it is resubmitted to the community; it enters the first state of the appropriate lifecycle based on the asset type or categories of the asset.
To change the reviewers, lifecycle managers, policies, and transitions of the workflow for this asset, see Modifying the lifecycles for individual assets.
To move the asset to the Retired state, from the Actions list select Retire; then, click Apply. When an asset is in the Retired state, only administrators and lifecycle managers can find or download the asset.