Converting Rational Quality Manager Proxy Requirements Integration to Direct Rational Requirements Composer Integration

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

  1. Stop the Rational Connector server.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Restart the Rational Connector server.
  5. 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.
  6. Ensure that the Rational Quality Manager server that contains the associated Rational Quality Manager project is running.
  7. 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.
  8. After the conversion is completed, go to the Rational Connector project involved in the conversion and click Edit.
  9. In Solution Manager, re-enable automatic blueprint pushes to the Rational Connector.
  10. 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.

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