Use configuration management capabilities to create versions of artifacts and link them to other team artifacts, such as requirements and designs. Use configurations (streams and baselines) from CLM applications to manage reuse, traceability, and parallel development. Use the Global Configuration Management (GCM) application to assemble configurations into global configurations to provide a context for resolving links between versioned artifacts within and across CLM applications.
To watch YouTube videos about configuration management, go to the Introduction to configuration management with the IBM® Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management playlist on the IBM Rational User Education channel.
Teams use their configuration management-enabled CLM applications to contribute requirements, designs, tests, and global configurations to a larger working environment. Global configurations assemble contributed configurations in a hierarchical tree view. Use global configurations to plan and manage the reuse of configurations in the many versions or variants of your software or product line.
In the Design Management (DM) application, there are no steps to activate and enable configuration management. By default, these project areas are compatible with RM and QM project areas that are enabled for configurations, and team members can create cross-application links to artifacts they need.
In the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) application, there are steps that you must complete to be able to link work items to versioned artifacts in RM and QM project areas. See Linking work items to artifacts in Configuration Management-enabled project areas.
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