Connecting Lifecycle Query Engine to applications that use a different Jazz Team Server

If you installed Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) on a separate Jazz Team Server (JTS) from the lifecycle management applications, first you add the client access licence for LQE on the JTS where the lifecycle tools are registered, then you create a functional LQE user that can run background tasks, you create an inbound consumer key for LQE on each lifecycle management application, and finally you add the data sources by using root services documents or URLs. This configuration ensures that LQE can access the IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) data.

Procedure

  1. In a web browser, open the JTS administration page: https://server:port/jts/admin.
  2. On the Server page, under Licensing, click License Key Management > Client Access License Types > Add.
    Screen capture of the JTS admin console License Key Management panel
  3. When prompted for a license, browse to the WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/licenses/TRS_Consumer_Internal.jar file in the lqe.war file. Follow the prompts in the wizard to accept the license agreement, and finish.

Creating the functional user that is required by LQE

Procedure

  1. On the JTS administration page, at https://server:port/jts/admin, in the Users menu, select Create user.
  2. Create the functional LQE user (for example, lqe_user), and assign the TRS Consumer-Internal client access license.
    Selecting the TRS Consumer-Internal license for lqe_user
    Note: If IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights (ENI) is installed on the same JTS, you must assign the TRS Consumer-Internal license to the lqe_user.
  3. Return to the Active Users page. Click the jts_user link. On the jts_user page, go to the Client Access License area, and select TRS Consumer-Internal.

Creating an inbound consumer key for LQE on each lifecycle management application

Before you begin

Start the server for each application that you want to configure.
Important: If the lifecycle management applications are deployed to the same JTS as LQE, it is not necessary to create inbound consumers. Complete these steps only if the applications that you add as data sources for LQE, such as Change and Configuration Management (CCM), Quality Management (QM), and Requirements Management (RM), run on a separate JTS.

Procedure

  1. Create the inbound consumer key for LQE in each lifecycle management application.
    Open the application administration page:
    • CCM: https://host_name:port/ccm/admin
    • RM: https://host_name:port/rm/admin
    • QM: https://host_name:port/ccm/admin
  2. On the Application page, select Communication >Consumers (Inbound) and create a new OAuth Consumer key for LQE.
    Enter the consumer name LQE, a secret, and select Trusted. Then click Register.
  3. In the Authorized Keys list, edit the LQE entry by clicking the pencil icon.
  4. In the Edit Consumer Key Properties dialog box, click the Select User... link.
  5. Enter lqe in the filter field, and select lqe_user from the list of matching users. Click Add and Close, and then Finish.

What to do next

Now you can add your data sources by using one of the following procedures: For details about which TRS feeds to configure for ELM, see Choosing what Tracked Resource Set feeds to add to Lifecycle Query Engine.