Connecting products, streams, and component baselines

Rational Team Concert™ and Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Manager exchange component baselines after streams are connected to products. The exchange of component baselines is always initiated from the Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager interface. You can add as many components to a stream as you need, without limit.

Before you begin

There is no formal role for the team member who manages streams. However, the tasks require a level of project information that a development lead or team manager knows.

Procedure

  1. In Rational Team Concert, set up a stream and add components to it. See Creating streams.

    Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager connects to streams, and receives and sends components. The source files that are part of a component are not part of the integration.

  2. In Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, in the Browse Products screen, create a product configuration to collect the products to be connected to a stream.

    See Creating a product configuration.

  3. In the Browse Products screen, create a child product under the configuration you created in step 2. You will use it to connect to a Rational Team Concert stream.

    After you connect the product to a stream and receive components into it, the product name changes to match the stream name.

    See Creating a product.

  4. Connect to a Rational Team Concert stream by right-clicking the product that you created in the previous step and selecting Manage Stream > Connect to Stream.
  5. In the Connect to Stream window, enter all or part of the stream name, and then choose the stream that you want to connect to.

    To connect to a different Rational Team Concert server, use the Search Rational Team Concert Server list. If you do not see the server that you need, request your administrator to add the server to the Settings > Integrations > Rational Team Concert screen.

    After the product is connected to the stream, the product is renamed to match the stream name. If you want the names to match, you do not need to do anything further. If you want the connected product to have a different name, you can rename it at any time.

    Connecting a product to a stream does not modify the Rational Team Concert stream nor does it create products that are connected to components baseline in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager. A connected product only associates the Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager product to a Rational Team Concert stream. Component baselines are exchanged when initiated from a Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager send or receive operation.

What to do next

Receiving and sending component baselines


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