Configuring the reportable shape for external applications

You configure the reportable shape to specify which attributes and link types are available to external reporting applications, such as Rational Insight.

Before you begin

Before you can configure the reportable shape, you must map attributes and link types in the Attribute and Link Mapping window on the Attributes and Links tabs.
Note: Attribute DXL is not available for attribute mapping or for inclusion in the reportable shape.

About this task

IBM® Rational® DOORS® can contain a huge amount of data; some data is active and some is not. External reporting applications, such as Rational Insight, can be overloaded with data that is not applicable to current activity. To ensure acceptable reporting scope and system performance, you can use the working set to limit available projects, folders, and modules. You can use the reportable shape to specify which attributes and link types are available for reports.

For the reportable shape, you can specify two types of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for attributes:
  • URIs for requirement attributes that are associated with objects in modules.
  • URIs for attributes that are associated with requirement collections at the module level.
You can specify link types that are available for reports by selecting URIs for link modules. These link modules provide link relationship data for objects in available modules.

Procedure

To configure the reportable shape:

  1. In theIBM Rational DOORS client, click File > Mappings. The Attribute and Linking Mapping window opens.
  2. Click the Reportable Shape tab.
  3. At the Requirements tab in the Reportable Shape page, select attribute and link types to make them available to the reporting application.
  4. At the Requirement Collections tab in the Reportable Shape page, select module attributes to make them available to the reporting application.
  5. Click OK to save the reportable shape.

What to do next

If you edit the reportable shape, you must run a full load ETL package rather than an incremental (delta) load in Rational Insight to reflect the changes in the shape.

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