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Saturday, 11 September 2021 13:32

IBM DOORS NG Extending capabilities

For completeness, the DNG public API's that are available are: 

  • RDNG Reportable API - extracting read only information from RDNG generally for creating custom reports to be run from DNG or RPE. As well, it can be used in a lot of custom applications interacting with RDNG. Big advantage of this API is its simplicity and great performance if you need to work with big amounts of data. Sometimes it's called as RDNG Reportable REST API.
  • OSLC RM V2 API - the open standard way to programmatically integrate with DOORS Next Generation, there is an elaborate workshop to get you started here OSLC Workshop article. These programs can be from any language that supports various HTTP methods of requests, e.g. Java, C# etc. Hence these are more flexible to run and can read and update DNG data, as part of a web server, or standalone, but have some limitations set by the current OSLC standard, for example module support. In release 6.0.5 extension have been added for modules. It's very powerful tool to work with RDNG data including capabilities of data modification but can be a little bit more complex in use than other ways.
  • TRS 2.0 - the OSLC Tracked Resource Set open standard REST API to hook into the stream of low level changes done to resources in the DNG application (and other Jazz apps as well); read only.
  • RM API - it's realized in client extension capability that is accessible from Rational DOORS Next Generation. This is Javascript extension framework that generally can be added as widgets which you can run from the dashboard, and can be used to view and edit DNG data. The widgets are developed in accordance to OpenSocial standard (based on Google Gadget framework). It's more tailored to DNG, so has better module support, but is limited to be run in a browser/javascript environment. It's very easy to make an automation of your work in this way. You can do a lot of interesting tricks with currently open Web page based on DOM/XML standards. You can add support of many popular libraries such as JQuery and so on. But this big simplicity results in some constraint in implementation. For example, you can easily access RDNG artifacts in current module or collection as well as access any selected artifacts but there are some difficulties if you need access artifacts in current view or currently available on the page. But use RM API together with other APIs described above can allow you do stunning things with RDNG.

Helpful Links

Ord. Link Comment
1 API Landing page This is a landing page for the various API wiki pages that exist on the Jazz.net development wiki as well as a central collective page of the known APIs that are available for integrating programmatically with our CE/CLM products. It serves as a convenience for accessing API information about CE/CLM products and is not guaranteed to have up-to-the-minute information.
 2 DOORS Next Generation Reportable API The DOORS Next Generation server provides REST APIs for accessing information about requirement artifacts for reporting. You can access each API by using a standard web browser, IBM Rational Publishing Engine or a third party tool can can consume the DNG reporting services responses. This document covers reporting capabilities for DNG versions 6.0 and higher.
3 Using OSLC capabilities in the Requirements Management application You can use Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration 2.0 (OSLC) capabilities in the Requirements Management (RM) application for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). This article includes examples of how to use those capabilities in an HTTP poster tool. These basic examples are described.
4 Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Workshop The workshop will help guide you to leverage the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard interfaces for interoperating with Jazz-based products including RDNG. These labs will highlight key aspects by leveraging web browser access and programmatic access via Java client programs. The final lab will illustrate by an example how to write your own server using Java servlets. This lab is based on the OSLC-CM 2.0 and OSLC-RM 2.0 Specification. After you complete these labs, you will have a good foundation by which to leverage OSLC to implement an interoperability project.
5 OSLC Requirements Management Version 2.1. Part 1: Specification This specification defines the OSLC Requirements Management domain, also known as OSLC RM. The specification supports key RESTful web service interfaces for software Requirements Management systems.
6 OSLC Requirements Management Version 2.1. Part 2: Vocabulary This specification defines a vocabulary and resource shapes for the OSLC Requirements Management resources.
7 IBM DOORS Next Generation Server API Documentation (additions from v6.0) Additions to standard OSLC API specially developed for use with RDNG. It takes into account some RDNG specifics that is out of scope of OSLC specification.
8 Getting Started with RDNG Extending Capabilities Brief video giving a quick introduction into client extending capabilities.
9 Client extension API for the Requirements Management (RM) application This document specifies the client extension API that forms part of the 6.0.5 release of the Requirements Management (RM) application. The version of this API is 1.1.
10 Client extension capability (all versions) List of links to client extension APIs for all supported versions.
11 jQuery API Useful API when developing RDNG client extensions.
12 Web APIs When writing code for the Web with JavaScript, there are a great many APIs available. Below is a list of all the interfaces (that is, types of objects) that you may be able to use while developing your Web app or site.

 

Useful Links

https://www.facebook.com/oslcfest/

Thursday, 25 October 2018 03:43

IBM Urbancode Deploy

UrbanCode Deploy - Deployment Automation

IBM UrbanCode Deploy is a tool for automating application deployments through your environments. It is designed to facilitate rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development while providing the audit trails, versioning, and approvals needed in production.

IBM UrbanCode Deploy provides

  • Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications
  • Automated provisioning, updating, and de-provisioning of cloud environments
  • Orchestration of changes across servers, tiers, and components
  • Configuration and security differences across environments
  • Clear visibility: what is deployed where and who changed what
  • Integrated with middleware, provisioning, and service virtualization
IBM UrbanCode Deploy is available in a variety of licensing plans. It is also available as a hosted service. For information about buying options, see the IBM Marketplace.
 

Typical Uses

  • Continuous Delivery: Integrate with the build and test tools to automatically deploy, test and promote new builds
  • Production Deployments: Orchestrate a complex production deployment of applications and configuration
  • Self-Service: Grant different teams rights to “push the go button” for different applications and environments
  • Incremental Updates: Deploy only the changed components or missing incremental (patch) versions

Key Features

Multi-Tier Application Models
 
Modern applications are often made up of many components. Perhaps a three-tier application with database, app, and content components. Or A mobile application with the actual mobile application and back-end web services. Even related collections of batch programs are seen as a logical application. UrbanCode Deploy tracks which components make up an application so they can be deployed and tracked together. Snapshots offer the ability to create a version of the application encapsulating versions of each of the components. With snapshots, it is easy to ensure that components that were tested together are released together.Learn more about application modeling and snapshots.
 
Easy Process Designer
  
Deployment automation tools need to know how to deploy your applications. In UrbanCode Deploy, processes are defined in the browser using a simple, drag and drop process designer. Component processes are composed of automation steps delivered by integration plugins. Application processes are composed of component processes.  Steps may be run in sequence or parallel. Transitions between steps are governed by rules. Typically, “Go this way on success, or that way on failure.” The designer makes it easy to translate a cryptic manual process into an easy-to-understand automated flow.
 
Deploy to Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud
Using the blueprint designer, you can model cloud environments and how your applications are deployed to those environments in a simple graphical editor. You connect to clouds, model the virtual images in the environment, and add your application components to those images. Then, you can provision environments and deploy the application components automatically and on-demand. The blueprint designer supports public and private clouds including IBM Bluemix, IBM SoftLayer, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, VMware vCenter, and OpenStack-based clouds.Learn more about the blueprint designer.
 
Track What is Where: Inventory
It is critical to understand what is in each environment. Audit wants to know what is in production. Testers need to know what we just ran those tests against. And when things go wrong, we all want to know what is different between those environments? UrbanCode Deploy tracks what is where in its inventory system. The inventory system tracks the desired state of each environment, as well as what has been successfully deployed to each target resource, and provides graphical alerts when an environment is out of compliance with that desired state.Learn more about Inventory.
 
Scalable Distributed Automation
UrbanCode Deploy is built to support mission-critical deployments to thousands of servers in numerous data centers. Master server clustering support provides high availability and horizontal scalability of the deployment automation tool. UrbanCode Deploy uses light-weight deployments agents that provide an immediate presence on or near the target. Remote agents can be proxied through an agent relay to manage load and simplify firewall management.Learn more about UrbanCode Deploy’s Architecture
 
Quality Gates and Approvals
For some environments, deployments may not be allowed until some conditions are met. Perhaps the versions being deployed must have passed tests or received a blessing from a team. Or the time and date of the deployment must be approved by several people. UrbanCode Deploy provides Environment Quality Gates as well as Approval Processes to help you ensure that only the right stuff goes out at the right time. Because these rules are set per application and per environment, early test environments are likely to be set up to not require approvals.
 
Integrations Replace Custom Scripting
Tested integrations are provided with dozens of tools to make the deployment process easier to design and less risky. Integrations are provided for application servers, load balancers, databases, testing tools, build servers and more. Utilities to manage configuration files, registry settings and the like are also available. Teams who have great deployment scripts already can continue to use them through UrbanCode Deploy either by directly calling the scripts, or embedding them in custom plugins. Browse available plugins at the Plugins Portal.
 

Learn More

Friday, 26 October 2018 06:06

IBM Jazz Platform Hosting and Maintenance

 IBM Jazz Server AdministrationWhat do we provide

  • Deployment of your IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management in Standard, Departmental or Enterprise topology
  • Hosting infrastructure for Your IBM CLM platform (data centers in the US, Europe, MEA, Africa, APAC, China)
  • Maintenance of your CLM platform including updates, patches (iFixes) on customer request
  • Opening and solving service tickets with IBM on customer request
  • A customizable security model that will allow accessing your CLM publicly, via VPN, or from selected IP addresses
  • Deploying customers customization to the server
  • Access to the log files and server files on the request
Friday, 02 November 2018 06:04

Watson IOT CE Event Munich 2018

VISIT US AT OUR STAND AT THE WESTIN GRAND HOTEL MUNICH 2018

14 – 16 May, Munich, Germany

Watson IoT

Continuous Engineering Summit Europe

The Watson IOT CE Event is the largest IBM exhibition in Europe for everyone interested in the area of system, requirements, and Continuous engineering.

The event will deliver in-depth technical content targeted at architects, developers, testers, integrators, and managers by offering lectures and hands-on labs to expand your knowledge and expertise on the latest technologies, trends, tips, and techniques.

Reasons to attend

 
 
 

Upgrade your skills.
Training is the key to success

Get up to speed on the latest technologies, trends, tips, and techniques – direct from industry leaders.

 

Select in-depth technical sessions

Learn about the latest technologies for Continuous Engineering (CE), the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twins, and more.

 

Gain varied practical experience
and get involved

Test-drive the latest technologies through hands-on labs.
Meet with IBM partners and engineering associa­tions to discuss the latest trends in the exhibition hall and labs.

 

Take advantage of 
networking opportunities

Exchange ideas and interact with colleagues, peers, technology gurus, executives, and experts during the welcome reception, happy hours, networking breaks, “Birds of a Feather” gatherings, and exhibitions.

 

Understand future
impacts on your business

Learn how IBM technologies can help you address new engineering complexities associated with connected products, IoT ecosystems, and service-centric business models.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The conference agenda in Munich

 

 

Program Tracks


Artificial Intelligence and Engineering

New advances in applying Watson to engineering.

Development and Engineering Best Practices

Success stories, challenges, and solutions helped transform your business to achieve faster time to value, higher quality and bigger return on your business investment.

Model-Based Engineering

Best practices, new implementations, and advances in MBSE and MBE for software development.

Requirements Management

Best practices and advances in Requirements Management for Systems and Software development.

Quality Management

Best practices and advances in Requirements Management for Systems and Software development.

Change and Configuration Management

Improving collaboration and configuration management across the development lifecycle.

Deploying CE Solutions including Cloud

Patterns, guidance, best practices, and customer case studies from successful deployments of CE
Solutions.

Community and Demonstration

Community and sponsored sessions

VoiCE-invitation only

Track to focus on the voice of our clients. Clients need to have

 

 We are looking forward to meet you there!

 

 

Wednesday, 14 November 2018 08:22

FMEA Analysis

Rational DOORS Next Generation application, which is delivered in Jazz CLM tools by IBM, supports extending its base features by specially developed programming units conformed to OpenSocial specification. FMEA extension developed by Softacus AG can give you important capabilities if you work with Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). A successful FMEA activity helps identify potential failure modes based on experience with similar products and processes.

User interface

FMEA RDNG extension widget

Results of extension's work

Explanation and features

The main features of the FMEA extension are:

  • Calculating Risikozahl Type based on such input data as the extent of damage, length of stay in the danger zone, probability of occurrence, and the possibility of avoiding the danger.
  • Painting colors based on calculated values in accordance with the next scale:

 FMEA RDNG extension's colors

  • Supported work in modules

Limitations:

  • Works in Module
  • The cells are colored after 0.5 seconds delay due to technical reasons of Jazz. The color will not appear if your jazz is slow. We can fix it by increasing 0.5 seconds to 5 seconds.

Know Problems:

If an artifact in DNG Module is selected the color will now be showing. The reason for that is that IBM implemented rosa color for highlighted requirements. As soon as you deselect the requirement desired color appears. Reload will also make the color appear.

The gadget must be open at least once after the user started his Web browser's session.

Pricing

This add-on is free of charge for customers who purchased the IBM Jazz solution via Softacus.

Please contact us if you need a different arrangement.

 

Contact us, Support, Modifications

Every functionality of any of Softacus Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next extension can be customized based on your needs. If you are interested in having, enhancing or if you found a defect in extension, please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Also, we are providing custom modifications for our customers. Every Softacus DNG Extension can be modified based on your needs or requirements. We are looking forward to developing a solution for you.

Contact page!

 

Friday, 21 December 2018 15:32

Blueworks Live Pricing

Blueworks Live 

Editor

Blueworks Live 

Contributor

Blueworks Live 

Viewer

Access all features and functions of Blueworks Live including the ability to create or edit processes, decisions, and policies. View and comment on processes, decisions, and policies but with no process modification capabilities. View processes, decisions, and policies but with no process & comment modification capabilities.
     

Best suited for users actively documenting, modeling, analyzing, and improving business processes

Best suited for users collaborating with team members to review and approve business processes

Best suited for a broader audience of users who want to read and understand the business processes

Features include create, copy, edit, publish, comment, review, analyze, import, export, and print

Features include view, comment, review, approve, analyze, import, export, and print

Features include view, comment,  approve, analyze, import, export, and print

     Sold in 100, 500 and 1000 user packages
 starting at  starting at  starting at
  51.14 € /user/month 10.23 /user/month  2.05 /user/month
    Viewer License capabilities

 

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Hosted at IBM data centers worldwide with users in over 90 countries

No plug-ins or software to install

Secure and reliable with ISO 27001, EU-US Privacy Shield, and GDPR certifications

Accessible 24/7 via a web browser with a public internet connection

 

 

Friday, 21 December 2018 16:13

Videos and Tutorials

Friday, 21 December 2018 16:41

References

Blueworks Live makes drawing tools obsolete with a dedicated, easy-to-use process modeling workspace in the cloud.

"As soon as we saw Blueworks Live we recognized it would allow a lot of people to participate quickly…
The results were amazing, including helping us win the coveted Malcolm Baldrige award."
Carla Wolfe
AVP of Enterprise Performance Excellence
Elevations Credit Union
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

 

See a simple Processmodeling in the IBM Cloud by Jennifer Schroen

 


 
 

Barclays

Improving customer experiences with IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Blueworks Live

 

Westpac New Zealand Ltd.

Westpac New Zealand Ltd. uses the IBM Blueworks Live cloud-based business process management application to quickly create more than 2,000 artifacts, which will help improve asset reuse.

 
 

 

Alpine Electronics, Inc.

As a global supplier of automotive audio and information communications equipment, Alpine Electronics needed to ensure that its quality management system (QMS) met customer expectations transnationally. Alpine deployed cloud-based IBM® Blueworks Live™ software as a service (SaaS) to model, visualize, control and unify its business processes.
 

 
Friday, 21 December 2018 16:55

Useful Links

Detailed System Requirements including certifications and data processing locations

Servicebeschreibung IBM Blueworks Live (Deutsch)

General Terms And Conditions (all IBM contracts)

Vereinbarung für Cloud-Services (German)

Ergänzende Bedingungen zur Auftragsverarbeitung (EB-AV)

Blueworks Live Documentation with step by step procedures

{slider Extending BlueworksLive via APIs}

Extending Blueworkslive - Maximize your business value with 5 universal use cases

An elegant adoption of Blueworks Live with the full harnessing of the data contained in your Blueworks Live account gives you the following benefits: governance checking, dashboards, the power to build process reports such as RACI matrices and customized SIPOC reports, and the ability to rank and quantify processes for investment optimization.

Main use cases:

  • User Management
  • User Statistics
  • Document Backups
  • Dashboards
  • Process Examination
  • Process Reports
  • Process Overview
  • Process  Assessment and Selection

 

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