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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Method Composer 7.6.2.1

Product Release / Trial | January 10, 2023
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Engineering Lifecycle Management - Method Composer 7.6.2.1 New & Noteworthy

Following are the new features and enhancements in this release:

Expanded web-based process authoring to include advanced user cases

Until now, the web authoring client provided basic authoring features: creating roles, work products and tasks.  Advanced process authoring still required users to continue using the rich client. Features released in MEC 7.6.2.1 bring key advanced functionality of the rich client to the web-based authoring client:

  • Create configurations to define scope of plug-ins included in process library
  • Define Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) to create table of contents, views and navigation menus in published process.
  • Create custom categories to define navigation menus in published process.
  • Create a new method type or modify an existing type.
  • Extend elements in a hierarchy to reuse structures from other modules.
  • New JRS reports to help process authors to assess coverage and identify gaps for improving consistency and completeness of process.
  • Use command line as an alternate mechanism to publish process authored using the reqif from the web client.

Enhanced elements of published process website

  • Insert own favicon for MEC generated process website.
  • Generate backlinks from Deliverable Parts to Deliverables.
  • View list of work products organized under additional headers to better indicate nature of relationship to task such as Mandatory input to, Mandatory input to (indirect), Optional input to, Optional input to (indirect), Output From (indirect).

Software component updates

  • Updated the following underlying technologies to address functional gaps and potential security vulnerabilities:
    • Lucene 3.5
    • Dojo 1.17.2
    • Bootstrap 5.1.3
  • Removed Applet search capability as it is no longer supported by browsers.
  • Support for Windows 11 as a rich client.
  • Support for RHEL 8.6 (previous RHEL versions are no longer supported).

More information:

For details about known problems, bug fixes, and other information, see Method Composer 7.6.2.1 Support page.