Configuring Rational Rhapsody and Rational DOORS with the Gateway Wizard

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Gateway synchronizes Rational Rhapsody models with IBM Rational DOORS® and other requirement management tools.

About this task

The Gateway DOORS wizard simplifies the setup process to link these two products. You can use the wizard to create new Rational DOORS documents or open the wizard for an existing Rational DOORS document in order to make some customizations. The wizard provides a step‑by‑step configuration of the Rational DOORS document capture.

The two types of customizations are Rational DOORS Basic and Rational DOORS Advanced. The common configuration for Rational DOORS capture and Rational DOORS Basic type, uses the Object ID as the requirement identifier. Rational DOORS Advanced type uses a ReqID attribute as the requirement identifier.

To configure Rational DOORS using the Rational Rhapsody Gateway wizard:

Procedure

  1. Open Rational Rhapsody Gateway.
  2. Select File > DOORS Wizard. The wizard inserts a new Rational DOORS document in the project editor.
  3. Enter the following information for the new document:
    • Document name
    • Rational DOORS Type to use directly or as a template for new type. Enter the New Type name when creating a type.
    • Types from library such as Rational DOORS Advanced or Rational DOORS Basic
  4. In the Type Customization window, configure the Requirement and Attribute capture in the Kind column for ReqID. Select one of the following options:
    • Ident use the attribute as Requirement identifier.
    • Label use the attribute as Requirement label.
    • Text use the attribute as Requirement text.
    • Present check that attribute is present on the Rational DOORS object being captured, a Condition can be provided to test the value of the attribute (regular expression).
    • Absent check that attribute with optional Condition is missing on the Rational DOORS object being captured.
    • Attribute create an Attribute type to capture the Rational DOORS attribute in Rational RhapsodyGateway.
    • Ignore keep this choice when the Rational DOORS attribute is not necessary for the Rational Rhapsody Gateway.
  5. In the Set Links to capture window from the list of link modules, select the links to capture.
  6. You can also select one of the two global settings that can be configured for the Rational DOORS document:
    • Capture diagrams allows capture of pictures that are in-lined in the Rational DOORS Object Text.
    • Extract only defined attributes allows saving conversion time by not converting attributes that are not used by the Rational DOORS type.

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