IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 Helps Teams Achieve Insightful Engineering at Enterprise Scale
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IBM United States Software Announcement 220-294, dated July 7, 2020 IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 helps teams achieve insightful engineering at enterprise scale Table of contents 1 Overview 9 Publications 1 Key requirements 9 Technical information 2 Planned availability date 10 Ordering information 2 Description 11 Terms and conditions 8 Statement of general direction 14 Prices 8 Program number 14 Order now Overview The IBM(R) Engineering Lifecycle Management solution is used for system design and development, including requirements, modeling, software development, validation, and verification. Built-in configuration management and other services based on OASIS Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) enables teams to accelerate compliance and increase reuse of their engineering assets. Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 includes enhancements to all of its product components, including: • IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS(R) Next 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Test Management 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Base 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Systems Design -Rhapsody(R) Model Manager 7.0.1 • IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS 9.7.2 • IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Web Access 9.7.2 • IBM Engineering Systems Design -Rhapsody 9.0.1 • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Method Composer 7.6.1 • IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Automotive Compliance 1.0.1 Changes to related Engineering Lifecycle Management products include the following: • Released as a stand-alone product in December 2019, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Automotive Compliance 1.0.1 is now a part of the IBM Engineering portfolio. Part numbers for this new product are associated with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization- Method Composer. • IBM Rational(R) Lifecycle Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition has been renamed IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Integration Adapters Tasktop Edition to align with the renaming of the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management portfolio. Key requirements IBM United States Software Announcement 220-294 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 For details, see the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections. Note : Version 7.0 and 7.0.1 releases no longer support Tomcat as an application server. Clients should deploy the bundled IBM WebSphere(R) Application Server Liberty that comes with Engineering Lifecycle Management Jazz applications. Optional Engineering Workflow Management clustering capabilities require IBM IoT MessageSight, for which a limited use license is included with the primary Engineering Lifecycle Management products at no extra cost. Clustering has other unique prerequisites, such as supporting only WebSphere Liberty for deployment. Certain optional global configuration management capabilities require IoT MessageSight, including: • The capability to include configurations from external global configuration management applications in a configuration hierarchy • The capability to see the components that are part of Engineering Workflow Management and IBM Rhapsody Model Manager streams and baselines IoT MessageSight runs only on Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R). Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 adds support for the MicrosoftTM Edge Chromium browser and drops support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. If you need continued Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 support, consider deferring upgrading to Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 and stay on versions 7.0 or 6.0.6.1, which support Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. Organizations that want to deploy Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 will need to consider: • Using Microsoft's strategic and faster Microsoft Edge Chromium-based browser on Microsoft WindowsTM 10 • Using a Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser on Microsoft Windows 10 Note : Engineering Workflow Management 7.0 and 7.0.1 no longer support Microsoft Windows 7. If you require continued Microsoft Windows 7 support on a project, it would be possible to run an Engineering Workflow Management 6.0.6.1 client against an Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.x server. This could give some development teams access to Microsoft Windows 7 compatible Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio clients on Engineering Workflow Management 6.0.6.1, while other teams could begin using Engineering Workflow Management 7.x clients against an Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.x server. Be advised that a mixed mode N-1 client and N server has about a 10% degradation in Engineering Workflow Management client performance for all users. Planned availability date July 7, 2020 Description Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 helps systems engineers and software developers define requirements and address them, respond efficiently to change, and create high-quality designs faster, while controlling development costs and meeting compliance needs. Global configuration management IBM United States Software Announcement 220-294 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 Global streams and baselines provide a shared development context across tools and teams. To help teams find and use global configuration in large global configuration trees, and to enable them to further tailor their use of global configurations to their unique development process, Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 includes the following enhancements: • Capability to perform more powerful queries, including subqueries, query for nonexistence, and query across project areas • Permissions to add or remove links, distinct from the capability to modify global configurations • Capability to customize the suffix separator in configuration names • New "Committed By" and "Committed On" attributes added to the baseline details section User interface modernization Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 continues to advance the modernization of the user interface that was started in version 7.0. Changes in this release, across the solution, include buttons, links and breadcrumbs, tabs, dialogs and modals, and IBM Document Builder consistency within the Engineering Lifecycle Management portfolio. Agile at scale Improvements in functionality to support agile and scaled agile organizations include: • New templates to support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 5.0 with additional capabilities consistent with the SAFe methodology: – SAFe 5.0 templates that are used in the creation of a SAFe-based lifecycle project area – Updated Portfolio Epic work item type workflow to include minimum viable product (MVP) and persevering states in the implementation state group – Added new Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis and Threats, Opportunities, Weaknesses, Strengths (TOWS) matrix artifact type to support Portfolio and Value Stream Canvas – Updated strategic theme artifact template to include an objectives and key results (OKR) table to more easily define strategic themes – New scope attribute added to the vision artifact type to enable the defining of the level (portfolio, solution, program, team) that owns the vision • Name and save program boards to enable a team or Engineering Workflow Management project area to have multiple program boards • Configuration of task boards to show features broken down into stories (program level) and stories broken down into tasks (team level) to support SAFe Program Increment planning • Specification of external Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for type definitions in SAFe templates, which can simplify reporting when using IBM Lifecycle Query Engine as a data source and some data exchange scenarios • Deprecation of SAFe 4.5 templates Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.0 .1 Enhancements in version 7.0.1: • A key focus of Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.x is to extend the overall scale of data that can be managed by using a DOORS Next Requirements Management server. Performance testing information for Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.0 can be found on the Jazz website, including how the solution was tested and the types of loads that were supported. Testing continued in version 7.0.1 and can now support up to 1,000 concurrent users working on a single Engineering Requirements Management server using an Oracle database. IBM United States Software Announcement 220-294 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 • When using change sets to modify requirements, it is common for dependencies between change sets to be created when multiple people change the same requirements or are making changes in the same module when there are changes to the structure of the module. Whereas DOORS Next 7.0 mandated delivering dependent change sets, Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next 7.0.1 enables dependencies to be overruled when selecting change sets for delivery. • Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) is improved in the way attachments and graphical elements are used as part of requirements information. Where possible, DOORS Next 7.0.1 can import OLE elements from applications such as DOORS directly into attachments in DOORS Next. DOORS Next can export graphical elements such as diagrams in a format that can be seen but not edited in other requirement tools, including DOORS. • Trace column information can be tailored to