To copy part of one IBM® Rational® Asset Manager repository
to another Rational Asset
Manager repository, export libraries and import them into another
repository. After you import a library, enable it to make its assets
and metadata active on the repository.
Before you begin
To work with repository libraries,
you must be a repository administrator.
About this task
You can also follow this procedure to import a full repository
model as a library.
Procedure
To import and enable a library:
- Log on to the Rational Asset Manager web client as a repository
administrator.
- Click Administration.
- In the Repository Administration sidebar,
click Libraries.
- If you have not imported the library, go to step 4.
- If the library that you want to enable is in the repository,
go to step 5.
- To import a library .zip file:
- In the Import Libraries section, click Browse.
- Browse to the library .zip file that you exported.
- Click Import.
- If you are prompted to, type a meaningful name and version
number for the library.
The library imports to the repository, but the library
is not enabled. The information page for the library opens.
- To make the assets and metadata structures
of the library available in the repository, enable the library.
- To enable the library and make its asset and metadata structures
available while maintaining their association with the library, in
the Library Actions sidebar click Enable.
- To make the asset and metadata structures available to the
repository but not have them be controlled by the library, see Disassociating repository libraries.
- If necessary, resolve conflicts
with the repository and with other libraries:
- Review conflicts
with other libraries that are enabled or with assets or metadata that
are active on the repository but that are not under the control of
a library. If there are conflicts with other libraries,
the elements from the library that you are enabling will replace the
elements from any other libraries. If there are conflicts with assets
or asset metadata on the repository, the elements from the library
that you are enabling will overwrite that information on the repository.
Attention: If the
assets or asset metadata in the library that you are enabling are
on the repository and another library does not manage them, the library
that you enable will overwrite that information on the repository.
For example, if you import a library with a category schema Best
Practices that exists on the repository, the version of Best
Practices that is associated with the library will overwrite
the schema that is currently on the repository. This cannot be undone.
If
there are conflicts between libraries, the assets or metadata in the
library that you are enabling will replace the existing elements from
other libraries. To undo this, you can enable, disassociate, or revert
the other library.
- To enable the library, click Enable.
What to do next
After you import or create and enable a library, you can
apply versions and manage its assets or metadata over time.