Jazz Jazz Community Blog Announcing Design Management 4.0 for Rational Software Architect and Rational Rhapsody
Don Yantzi Don Yantzi
Thu, 13 Sep 2012
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I am excited to announce that today the Design Manager 4.0 support for Rational Software Architect (RSA) is generally available and that the support for Rational Rhapsody will be coming on September 21st.

This is a very big release for Design Manager; in my opinion even more significant than the initial release in June 2011. For starters, the Design Management server can now actively manage changes to designs. This eliminates the need for RSA and Rhapsody users to manage their design changes with a file-based SCM and then import the design changes onto the DM server.

The next biggie is the integration with CLM. The DM server can now be configured to share a Jazz Team Server with Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality Manager making the overall solution easier to administer.

One of the most common questions I get asked with DM is “Can I link my requirements and designs?” The answer is yes! DM 4.0 includes OSLC linking between designs and requirements regardless of whether you are using RSA, Rhapsody, RRC, or DOORS.

Here are the 4.0 highlights:

  1. Managing design changes and design configuration management
  2. Sharing a Jazz Team Server with CLM for easier administration
  3. Design projects integrated with lifecycle projects
  4. Lifecycle traceability between requirements and designs
  5. Graphical impact analysis
  6. Search for design resources across multiple project areas
  7. Query-based searching
  8. Web-based sketching
  9. Live design documents
  10. Integrated document generation with predefined templates.

Check out the “What’s New in Rhapsody Design Manager and RSA Design Manager 4.0” for more details and keep an eye on the jazz.net library for upcoming articles and videos that dive into each of these areas.

Congratulations and thanks to the entire team who worked tremendously hard over the past 15 months on this release. We hope enjoy using it and look forward to your feedback!

Don Yantzi

Product Manager, Rational Software Architect and Design Management

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8 Comments
  1. Frank Ning September 18, 2012 @ 10:02 pm

    Is this a free component with CLM 4.0 entitlement or an extra feature to purchase? Does it have a trial license?

  2. Don Yantzi September 19, 2012 @ 6:50 am

    Hi Frank,

    DM defines a new role that fits into the CLM licensing. Licenses for the role (named Designer for RSA users and Design Manager for Rhapsody users) are a separate charge and give the user full read / write access to DM. Basically someone who needs to update the designs would need this license. The DM role has the same shared capabilities as the other CLM roles (full access to work items, planning, and reporting).

    All the other CLM roles (Contributor, Developer, Business Analyst, Quality Professional) have been updated with “read” access to DM which means they can view, search, comment, and markup designs and participated in design reviews.

    All DM roles have a 60 day trial period once they are activated on the server. You can get the server from here: https://jazz.net/downloads/design-management/releases/4.0

    Don

  3. Bruno Braga September 19, 2012 @ 1:13 pm

    Customer with RSA 8.5 license have right to use the Rational Software Architect Design Manager?

  4. Don Yantzi September 19, 2012 @ 4:22 pm

    Hi Bruno,

    Design Management is a separate license / charge from the RSA 8.5 desktop. One note, Design Management 4.0 can be used with RSA 8.0.4.1 and RSA 8.5.

    Don

  5. Ross Tang September 19, 2012 @ 7:38 pm

    Hi Don,

    The installation and configuration is fairly easy. It will be nicer if there are some youtube to elaborate the new functionality.

    Ross Tang,

  6. Don Yantzi September 20, 2012 @ 6:35 am

    Hi Ross, thanks for the feedback. The infocenter (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rdmhelp/v4/index.jsp) has some videos in the Tutorials section. The goal is to have videos and articles for each of the enhancements I highlighted above posted to the jazz.net library as well. There are some in the pipeline so stay tuned. Don

  7. Uri Shani October 12, 2012 @ 6:53 am

    Hi Don,
    Is this the public forum for technical issues with DM?

  8. Don Yantzi October 12, 2012 @ 9:12 am

    Hi Uri, please use the forum for technical issues:

    https://jazz.net/forum

    Don

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