Artifact: Package Configuration Specification
This describes the selection and setting of values and options that customize a COTS package for installation.
Domains: Architecture
Purpose

The purpose of the Package Configuration Specification is to identify, document, and set the parameters for an user specific version of a COTS package. A variety of means specific to each COTS package, such as configuration scripts or files containing lists of parameters, are used to set the parameters that typically relate to:

  • Global settings
  • Country settings
  • Languages
  • Currencies (such as exchange rates, decimal places, and rounding rules)
  • Units of measurement 
  • Calendar
  • Chart of accounts
  • Company codes
  • Reporting
  • Security and Control
  • Organization structure and hierarchy elements
Relationships
Tailoring
Representation OptionsUML Representation:

Not Applicable.