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Type System Manager Part 2

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We finally published Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 3: Automation tool deep dive on Jazz.net.This was a major effort and took a long time to do. This article provides a closer look at the source code, what it does and how it does it. It also provides some insight in how OSLC4J works and can be used. The information in the article, especially for setup and deployment of the automation prototype is very reusable for other scenarios and I hope to be able to reuse it in later articles and blog posts.

Type System Manager

When this effort was planned and performed last year, we had no idea what would come out of this effort. When we finished the first iterations and I started to write Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 3: Automation tool deep dive, we called what we where working on an automation prototype in the articles. I decided to keep it that way.

Since then, I started to call the prototype Type System Manager and I will continue to use that name.

The article Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 3: Automation tool deep dive, basically explains the details of the code that was created until end of January 2019. This is Release 1 of Type System Manager.

New versions?

While working on the article, I continued to refine the Type System Manager. See the releases tab for the latest release. The latest releases support more automation It integrates finding editable configurations based on sub-strings in the description, create a source to target mapping and import/deliver type system changes based on this mapping. The new commands avoid the creation of a CSV file.

The code is also slightly refactored. Most of the content from Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 3: Automation tool deep dive, still applies, but don’t be surprised if there are slight changes in names and locations. There basically where inconsistencies that I found along the way and decided to fix.

The latest versions also register Custom Resource Intensive Scenarios.

TSM 1.1

In addition to all this, the code on this branch already supports Registering Custom Resource Intensive Scenarios to CLM Applications. Each command uses its own scenario name composed from the command name plus the postfix “Scenario” to register the scenario execution.

Disclaimer and Download

Any code downloadable or accessible in this post is provided as is, without support, and used at your own risk.

The code was developed in Java using Eclipse and is based on the Eclipse Lyo Client.

Thanks to IBM approving, the code was published as open source, under 
 Eclipse Public License – v 1.0, in the incredible (mostly German speaking) Jazz Community and can be found here.

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Feedback

If you have questions around the Type System Manager, ask them in the Jazz.net forum instead of commenting on the article or this blog post. Tag the question as a Rational DOORS Next Generation question and add the tag: dng-type-system-management to mark it for the reader.

Summary

As always I hope that the artifacts created for this blog and on Jazz.net will useful for the Jazz user community out there.

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Type System Manager Part 1

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It has taken some time since I published Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 1: Manual procedures which is about this Jazz.net article.

I was very excited about it, because I was contributing to the effort myself. We finally have made progress and just released the next part. You can now read the article about Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 2: Automation.

So, what is that all about?

Type System Manager

I did some prototyping, and we experimented with different possible approaches for this automation. What we came up with is explained in the article above.

In summary, I created a prototype, lets name it Type System Manager (TSM), that can be used to automate the type system management, supporting the best practices identified in Part 1.

Example Execution Output

The prototype uses available public Doors Next Generation OSLC/REST API’s to perform the necessary tasks.

So I have been lucky to be able to do some prototyping and learn a lot about OSLC and REST API’s. The result is a prototype, that has a useful application, and is also a demonstrator for how to create automation using OSLC and REST API’s.

Usage of OSLC and REST API’s has been missing on this blog and this prepares the foundation for hopefully more examples, here in this blog, in the future.

Disclaimer and Download

I should not have to write this, but as this is the internet 8), so here goes: Any code downloadable or accessible in this post is provided as is, without support, and used at your own risk.

The code was developed in Java using Eclipse and is based on the Eclipse Lyo Client.

Thanks to IBM approving, the code was published as open source, under
 Eclipse Public License – v 1.0, in the incredible (mostly German speaking) Jazz Community and can be found here.

What is next?

The second part explains how the TSM prototype can be used and what it does and how. The next part is currently under review and will explain the details of the code, how it works, how to re-use and add to it. It also explains how to download and work with the code.

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Feedback?

As mentioned in the article Comments, feedback, ideas, and experiences are greatly appreciated.

If you have questions, ask them in the Jazz.net forum instead of commenting on the article or this blog post. Tag the question as a Rational DOORS Next Generation question and add the tag: dng-type-system-management to mark it for the reader.

Summary

As always I hope that the artifacts created for this blog will useful for the Jazz user community out there. Feedback, also usage, is greatly appreciated.

Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 1: Manual procedures

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I have been involved in efforts around the configuration management features in the IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management and Continuous Engineering Solution. These Configuration Management capabilities are a completely new approach to versioning and variant management across the different disciplines such as Requirements Management, Quality Management, Modeling, and Software Change and Configuration Management. We realize that there is a whole new area for best practices and our subject matter experts have been working on creating necessary information for some time. There is already some content available on Jazz.net. For example from Kathryn and Tim in the Deployment Wiki.

As we learn we try to create more content, involving more SMEs. Today we published the article Maintaining the Rational DOORS Next Generation type system in a configuration-management-enabled environment. Part 1: Manual procedures.

I am currently working on Part 2. If you want to know what that could be, check the article.

I am pretty excited, I hope to publish soon!