If you used the 1.0 release of Rational® Connector for SAP Solution Manager
with Rational Requirements
Composer, then you created requirements through the Rational Quality Manager proxy.
About this task
To use existing Rational Requirements
Composer requirements and test plan collections that are created by
the 1.0 Rational Connector
with the 4.0 connector, a database conversion must occur.
Procedure
- Stop the Rational Connector
server.
- With the server stopped, make a backup of the Rational Connector’s database. If you used
a Derby database, you can find the Derby database in your installation
directory: <install_directory>\server\conf\sapc\Derby\SAPConnectorDB.
For a DB2® connector database,
consult the DB2 documentation
to make a backup of that database.
- In Solution Manager, temporarily disable automatic blueprint
pushes to the Rational Connector.
Also, consider temporarily altering (for example, removing, changing
the port) the TESTDATA logical port so that users cannot manually
do blueprint pushes. This change ensures that new requirements are
not created by the Rational Quality
Manager proxy during the database conversion.
- Restart the Rational Connector
server.
- Log in to the Rational Connector
web interface and, click Edit for the Rational Connector project
that is associated with the Rational Quality
Manager project that is using the proxy.
- Ensure that the Rational Quality
Manager server that contains the associated Rational Quality Manager project is running.
- On the Rational Quality Manager Server page,
click Activate RRC Integration. This step can
take a long time based on the number of requirements that are made
by the Rational Quality
Manager proxy. Therefore, it is possible that the browser connection
to the Rational Connector
server might timeout. If a browser timeout occurs, check the connector.log file
to confirm that the conversion completed successfully.
- After the conversion is completed, go to the Rational Connector project involved in the
conversion and click Edit.
- In Solution Manager, re-enable automatic blueprint pushes
to the Rational Connector.
- Go to the Rational Requirements Composer server page
and add an association to the Rational Requirements
Composer project that contains the now converted proxy requirements.
Results
These steps set up the Rational Connector
server to communicate directly with the existing Rational Requirements Composer requirements
created by the Rational Quality
Manager proxy. When future blueprint pushes occur, the Rational Connector can communicate directly
with the Rational Requirements
Composer server to manipulate requirements and test plan collections.