IBM(R) Rational(R) RequisitePro(R) is
a requirements management tool that teams can use to manage project
requirements comprehensively, promote communication and collaboration
among team members, and reduce project risk.
Description
Rational RequisitePro uses
a project database for managing requirements in views with sort and
query capabilities. It also includes integration with Microsoft(R) Word for creating and maintaining
requirements documents that are linked to the database for real-time
updates to requirements from within documents. The database and Word
integration helps you organize and prioritize your requirements, trace
relationships between them, and track changes that affect them. Traceability
features visually indicate how changes affect the project, helping
you perform impact analysis and make informed decisions for scope
management or resource allocation. You can manage requirement changes
more effectively and keep your project on track. Rational RequisitePro captures the change history
for each requirement, providing an audit trail of the evolution of
project requirements.
This document provides information and
links for installing and using Rational RequisitePro, including new features,
compatibility, known problems, fixed defects, changed files, late-breaking
information, workarounds for defects, and supplemental information
about topics that might not be covered in the RequisitePro Information
Center.
This document provides information for the following
types of users:
- System administrators and database administrators who install
and configure the product
- Project managers who create and configure product projects and
documents
- Advanced users who implement integrations of Rational RequisitePro with other products, work
on international systems and localized versions of the product, or
encounter problems that are not included in the documentation
Compatibility issues with earlier versions
and international systems
Rational RequisitePro works only with other Rational products
that are version 7.1, or later. You must install and upgrade the other Rational products.
For compatibility with this release, if your team accesses shared Rational RequisitePro projects from multiple
clients and RequisiteWeb, you must upgrade all of your Rational RequisitePro and RequisiteWeb installations
to version 7.1. To determine the version of the Rational products
that are installed on your system, you can open IBM Installation
Manager and click File > View Installed Packages.
Rational RequisitePro is enhanced for teams that
work across time zones because documents now use GMT time stamps to
eliminate inconsistencies. Rational RequisitePro is
supported on the following international operating systems: French,
German, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Dutch, Hebrew, and Korean. You can enter text and data in
your geographic language and corresponding character set on the following
operating systems: French, German, Japanese, Italian, Swedish and
Simplified Chinese. Regional date, time, and number conventions, as
specified by the regional settings that are selected in the Windows(R) Control Panel, are also supported
for input and output.
Users on Hebrew, Korean, Traditional
Chinese and Dutch operating systems must enter all input data (such
as path names and project data) by using U.S. English. Screens, menus,
controls, wizards, reports and user documentation are in U.S. English.
Internationalization requires homogeneous language environments, such
as a French operating system that uses French versions of SQL Server
and Microsoft Word. When Rational RequisitePro and Rational ClearQuest(R) are integrated, the databases
for both products must use the same language code page.
System requirements
For
information about hardware and software requirements, see System
requirements.
For additional details, see the following Rational Support
technotes:
Installing Rational RequisitePro 7.1
For
complete documentation, including step-by-step instructions for installing Rational RequisitePro, see the most current version
of the IBM Rational RequisitePro Installation
and Upgrade Guide in the Information
Center.
What's new
The following features
are included in the 7.1 release of
Rational RequisitePro and the client
for Web (RequisiteWeb).
Reporting- Reports on requirements, documents, and several other project
items can be produced.
- The IBM Rational RequisitePro Report
Management facility provides a simple interface for organizing and
launching reports. It is accessed as a Web page at http://<server_name>/ReqProRptMgmt/,
where <server_name> is the hostname or IP number of the system
where the Reporting Server was installed.
- The Report Management facility provides four sample reports based
on the Learning Use Case project.
- BIRT Report Designer with IBM Rational RequisitePro Data Source provides the
capability to create new report templates.
- Optional features are installed by selecting new checkboxes in
the Installation Manager.
- Data sources that pull data from any RequisitePro project
are included. Multiple data sources can be defined per report to pull
data from multiple projects.
Access databases can be upgraded- Access databases created before version 7.1 can be upgraded to
the 7.1 schema with the RequisitePro Database Upgrade
Wizard.
- Enterprise databases can be upgraded to the 7.1 schema using scripts
that are provided in the installation. For more information see the Rational RequisitePro Installation and Upgrade
Guide.
Web User Interface - Updated UI design graphics are included.
- A Quick Search is included.
Web Word authoring in RequisiteWeb - Enhanced integration with Microsoft Word
is provided.
- You can edit and save Word documents while working online.
- You can create, delete, and modify requirements in Word documents.
- You can create requirements of any requirement type in the document.
- You can view and edit requirement properties from within the document,
as in the Windows native client.
- You can establish parent and child relationships while working
in the document.
Feature parity between Rational RequisitePro and RequisiteWeb - You can change the types of requirements in RequisiteWeb.
- An option to show the column requirement name in text in Traceability
Matrix views is provided.
Enhanced package security - Administrators can set package permissions for user groups.
- You can apply update, create, or delete permissions to requirements,
documents, views, and child packages.
FIPS-compliant encryption - Database password encryption complies with the Federal Information
Processing Standard (FIPS).
- Access to the LDAP server is protected by a FIPS-compliant password
encryption system.
Integrations- RequisitePro supports integration with IBM Rational RequisitePro Composer version 7.1.
- RequisitePro supports integration with IBM Rational Quality
Manager.
View baseline- You can view a single baseline using the same view format as that
for Compare baselines. Only a single baseline
is displayed.
Support for rich text through RequisiteWeb - Requirements created in IBM Rational RequisitePro Composer retain font and
style enhancements when displayed in RequisiteWeb.
- Requirements created in Microsoft Word
documents retain font and style enhancements and embedded images when
displayed in RequisiteWeb.
- All views support full rich text.
IBM Eclipse Help System for RequisiteWeb
The RequisiteWeb has a new Eclipse-based
help system that includes an improved navigation tree, an index, and
search capability, and provides new content on reporting, Web Word
authoring, and other enhancements.
IBM Eclipse
Help System the client for Windows
A
new Eclipse-based help system is available for the Rational RequisitePro client for Windows. It is shipped with the product and
is available at the Information
Center.
Known problems
Known problems are documented
in the form of individual technotes in the
Support
knowledge base. As issues are discovered and resolved, the IBM Support
team updates the knowledge base. Search the knowledge base to find
workarounds or solutions to problems quickly. You can launch a customized
query of known problems, both open and closed, in this release of Rational RequisitePro to alert you to the following
usage limitations and outstanding issues: