We’re very excited to announce the availability of the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) 6.0.6.1 solution, previously known as the IBM Continuous Engineering solution. In this release, we deliver the latest quality fixes and scale improvements along with some important enhancements in each of the applications. In addition, we are changing the solution name, as indicated above, as well as the underlying application names to better align with our key capabilities and value proposition. You can read more about the renaming activity in the blog post: Renaming the IBM Continuous Engineering Portfolio. In the details below, you will see the new names along with old abbreviations.
As with previous releases, we continue to focus on the key themes depicted below to help product and software engineering teams realize benefits of using ELM to plan, manage and deliver change.
Let’s dive into what you can expect in this latest release.
Enhancement Headliners
In 6.0.6.1, we have delivered key enhancements across the applications in support of our strategic focus areas.
Area |
Application |
Enhancement |
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Agile @ Scale |
Engineering Workflow Management (RTC) |
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Systems Engineering |
Global |
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Multi-Tier Engineering Value Chain Collaboration |
Engineering Requirements Management (RDNG) |
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Model-Based Engineering |
Rhapsody |
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Rhapsody |
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Compliance & Reporting |
Report |
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Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (RPE) |
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Software Development |
Engineering |
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Serviceability |
Jazz Foundation |
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In addition to these key enhancements, we focused on quality and scalability improvements across the solution. Read on for details on these.
Enterprise Quality of Service Highlights
Improvements in the quality and scale of the ELM (CE) solution include:
- RDNG stability in large-scale environments
- Reliability of reporting with versioned data in configuration-aware environments
- Reliability of email notifications in cases where there is a firewall between the SMTP server and the Jazz Team Server
- Ease of discovery and resolution of error conditions on administration pages
Details are highlighted below for each of the application areas below. Note that some of these improvements were delivered in 6.0.6 iFix releases, which have been rolled into 6.0.6.1.
Global Configuration Management (GCM)
- Performance improvements when working with global configuration hierarchies consisting of hundreds or thousands of streams and baselines
IBM Engineering Requirements Management (RDNG)
- Performance improvements when working with hundreds of components
- Added support for multi-server deployments, greatly improving concurrent user and data scalability
- New timeouts on long-running queries that adversely affected server performance
- Added capability to archive uninteresting configurations to reduce index size and increase overall data scale
IBM Engineering Workflow Management (RTC)
- Faster work item editor load times when there are many saved tags
- Full-Text Searching is faster
- File caching with Apache Traffic Server for a better experience over wide-area networks
- Git automation to simplify registering large numbers of repositories
IBM Engineering Test Management (RQM)
- Optimized database queries that are resource intensive
- Added a new REST API to allow deleting test results from QM database
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
- Improved performance when refreshing tables, opening diagrams and interacting with large models
- Less performance impact on DOORS or RDNG when loading or refreshing remote requirements (Rhapsody and RMM)
- Efficiency improvements when managing and working with large numbers of remote requirements
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization (JRS)
- Easier access to logs for problem identification and resolution
- Improved reliability of data in the Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) data source through validation of indices against Tracked Resource Set (TRS) feeds
- More comprehensive RTC data published to the LQE data source
And one last thing… version 6.0.6.1 is an Extended Maintenance Release (EMR), which means it includes all fixes from earlier releases, including security fixes, for the life of the release stream.
Details on each of the solution and application improvements, product-specific posts are being rolled out over the next couple of weeks. As always, we greatly appreciate your feedback!
Amy Silberbauer
Executive IT Specialist, Watson IoT Engineering Offering Management
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