Links across OSLC domains

IBM® Rational® DOORS® supports integration with other application domains by using standard link types as implementations of the OSLC specifications. The link types for Architecture Management are specified by Jazz.net Design Management team wiki.

OSLC link relationships

The following table lists the OSLC relationships that are used when you link artifacts across various domains. The table also links to definitions of the OSLC relationships.

* Support for this link relationship was added in V2 of the domain specifications.

Discovered link cache

When you open a module in Rational DOORS, the external OSLC links with other lifecycle products are "discovered" and the results are stored in a database-wide cache so that modules open faster in the future. This link discovery process has a potential performance impact when opening a module, depending on the performance of the integrated product. The cache has a default timeout value of 5 minutes. After that time, the links must be "rediscovered" so that the cache has the latest status of the links. You can change the timeout value by using the setCachedExternalLinkLifeTime DXL perm. For more information, see "OSLC Link Discovery" in the DXL Reference Manual, which is available both as a PDF file and as from the Help menu.


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