IBM Rational RequisitePro Service Release 2003.06.13 Release Notes

V2003.06.13, September 2004

This file last updated: August 9, 2004

Material ID/Part Number: GI11-5910-03


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Scope

These service release notes provide the following information for this release of IBM(R) Rational(R) RequisitePro(R):

Product changes described in this document and contained within this service release apply if you are upgrading from:

These Release Notes are accurate at the time this product was prepared for release. The most recent version of this file is available in the IBM Publications Center at http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order. Search for "GI11-5910-03" to find the latest version of these Release Notes in the IBM Publications Center. (To search for the IBM Publications Center, go to http://www.ibm.com and enter "IBM Publications Center" in the Search field.)

Go to IBM Rational RequisitePro Release Notes for a full description of the release, including enhancements, all supported platforms, and known issues.

Contents

What's New in This Service Release
Hardware/Software Information
Getting Started
Product Documentation
Defects and Changes
Contacting IBM Rational Customer Support

What's New in This Service Release

RequisitePro Baseline Manager

Project administrators can now use the RequisitePro Baseline Manager to create RequisitePro baselines of requirements contained in documents, Attribute Matrix views, packages, or an entire RequisitePro project. In addition, they can compare RequsitePro baselines and generate comparison reports. Note: Baseline Manager users must be members of the administrators group for the RequisitePro project that contains the baseline artifacts.

The Baseline Manager capability allows you to perform the following tasks:

Because this capability is part of RequisitePro project administration, it is only available from RequisitePro and not from RequisiteWeb.

The integration between RequisitePro and IBM Rational ClearCase UCM, which allows project administrators to create UCM baselines of RequisitePro projects, is still available in this release. However, the RequisitePro Baseline Manager cannot be used to compare UCM baselines.

DB2 Support

RequisitePro now offers support for RequisitePro projects in the enterprise database IBM DB2 Universal Database. A new setup document "Configuring DB2 for IBM Rational RequisitePro" and the associated scripts provide configuration instructions and tools for DB2 database administrators and RequisitePro administrators.

E-mail Notification for Requirement Revisions

Rational RequisitePro provides e-mail notification for requirement revisions to users who subscribe to those requirements. Users can subscribe to a requirement in the Requirement Properties dialog box or in an Attribute Matrix. RequisitePro monitors a list of projects for revisions at specified times or time intervals and notifies users. When RequisitePro detects new revision entries that have occurred since the last notification, the service sends an e-mail message with revision information to users who are subscribed to the revised requirements. For more information, see the RequisitePro Help index: revisions > notification; also see the Help topic "Revision notification overview."

Enhanced Word Integration

Internal program access to Microsoft Word capabilities has been enhanced through the use of Word COM interfaces. These revisions significantly improve Word behavior and performance in the following areas: Word version management, bookmark (and requirement) handling, menu command methods, window management, document opening, and document identification. This new use of the Word COM interfaces resolves numerous RequisitePro defects and promotes more robust, efficient Word performance.

RequisiteWeb Tabbed Requirement Properties pages

RequisiteWeb now offers access to all requirement properties through a set of tabbed pages that correspond to the Requirement Properties dialog box in the RequisitePro Windows client. This centralizes requirement creation and editing in a concise user interface. The tabbed pages include the following:

Creating Requirements in a RequisiteWeb Attribute Matrix

You can now create a new requirement from within an Attribute Matrix. The Create Requirement button appears at the bottom of each Attribute Matrix page, and provides access to the tabbed Requirement Properties pages. The new requirement defaults to the requirement type of the Attribute Matrix; it is displayed in the matrix after you save it. For more information, see the topic "Creating and modifying requirements" in the RequisiteWeb online Help.

Editing Requirements in a RequisiteWeb Attribute Matrix

You can now modify requirement attribute values directly in an Attribute Matrix. When you edit in an Attribute Matrix, each value you change is recorded as a separate revision history record. For more information, see the topic "Creating and modifying requirements" in the RequisiteWeb online Help.

Editing Traceability in a RequisiteWeb Traceability Matrix

You can now work directly within a Traceability Matrix to add, remove, and modify a traceability relationship between two requirements. You can also add or remove suspect conditions for the traceability relationship. For more information, see the topic "Viewing and modifying traceability" in the RequisiteWeb online Help.

Hardware/Software Information

This service release adds support for the following:

RequisitePro Client Requirements

Microsoft Windows XP SP-2
For use of Windows XP, see the IBM Rational RequisitePro release notes installation issue: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Security Measures.

RequisitePro Server Requirements

IBM DB2 Universal Database version 8.1 FixPak 5 or later. The Express Edition is also supported.

For more information on hardware and software requirements for this release, refer to the IBM Rational RequisitePro Release Notes. For more information on RequisiteWeb hardware and software requirements for this release, refer to Installing and Configuring IBM Rational RequisiteWeb.

To verify the version of RequisitePro that is installed on your system, click the RequisitePro menu Help > About.

Getting Started

Installation Information

For information on upgrading RequisiteWeb, refer to the Installing and Configuring IBM Rational RequisiteWeb.

For full installation instructions, see the manual IBM Rational Software Desktop Products Installation Guide. For information about upgrading Rational Suite or integrations with other Rational products, see the manual IBM Rational Suite Upgrade Guide and the IBM Rational Suite Release Notes. Both installation guides are available at the IBM Publications Center (http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order).

Product Documentation

For a description of documentation sources for this product, refer to the IBM Rational RequisitePro Release Notes.

Note: IBM Rational documentation is now available at the IBM Publications Center (http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order). (To search for the IBM Publications Center, go to http://www.ibm.com and enter "IBM Publications Center" in the Search field.)

Defects and Changes

The following defects have been fixed in RequisitePro. For defect fixes in RequisiteWeb, refer to the Installing and Configuring IBM Rational RequisiteWeb.

Defects fixed in Version 2003.06.13

Component

ID

Description

Archiving RATLC00718568 When a RequisitePro document is archived in ClearCase, it is stored as a "binary" file rather than "ms_word" file.
ClearQuest Integration RATLC00059074, RATLC00059263 In order for the typical RequisitePro-ClearQuest integration to work, the RequisitePro requirement attribute names for the ClearQuest attribute type must be the exact English strings "Enhancement Request" and "Defect."
Creating Requirements RATLC00702995 New Requirements Wizard does not completely mark all requirments in a large document when creating requirements from a range of text.
Creating Requirements RATLC00717719 New Requirement Wizard does not create proper requirement history.
Documents RATLC00720051 Merge hotfix to 2003.06.13 (RATLC00714918). Need to present a dialog box to the user before merging corrupted document information into the RequisitePro project database.
Extended Editing RATLC00717601 When using extended editing in RequisitePro, updating requirement text outside of a document in a view, the text may lose its formating (such as numbering, bullet, font, color, and underline) in the document.
Hierarchical Requirements RATLC00717879 Child requirements stay pending after assigning many child requirements to a parent in a document.
Hierarchical Requirements RATLC00059283 In SQL Server-based project, duplicate child requirements can be created. An error message occurs when you collapse the project in the Requirement Explorer or when you create a new view. See also RATLC00059282.
Importing Documents RATLC00716779 RequisitePro updates the wrong records when importing documents.
Importing Documents RATLC00455627 Error importing a document that contains a bitmap image.
MS Word: Stories RATLC00439909 If you are using the story capability in Word, do not use bookmarks (including requirements) outside of the main story.
MS Word:
Saving Documents
RATLC00016406 If you change focus while a document is being saved, requirements may retain pending tags in the document. Use the Rebuild Tags command, and the requirement tags are displayed properly in the document.
MS Word: Links RATLC00453004 Link to a file, embedded in a RequisitePro read-only document gives error.
Managing Projects RATLC00057228 If you have previously installed this version of RequisitePro and are installing it again in a different location, the old paths to sample projects are retained in your project list. You must remove those sample projects and add the newly installed sample projects to your project list.
Managing Projects RATLC00059387 The RequisitePro project session lock file is overwritten when a second user opens the project under ClearCase UCM control.
Managing Project Performance RATLC00059065 Degraded performance when opening a project, as more users are logged into the project.
Managing Project Performance RATLC00451809 Slow performance when expanding a package with subpackages for the first time.
Performance RATLC00719286 An internal function causes slow performance when displaying requirement properties and setting traceability.
Project Templates: View Filters RATLC00452520 Views that filter on Package are not correctly saved after creating a project template and including project data.
Online Help RATLC00453178 Help needs to be revised to show that Configure function is no longer available for project properties. This function was fomerly was used to perform repair and compact procedures for projects based in Microsoft Access.

Defects fixed in Version 2003.06.12

Component

ID

Description

RequisitePro Extensibility Interface Help RATLC00058527 Description of new RqCallback extensibility dll should be included in RequisitePro Extensibility Interface Help (rpx.hlp).
RequisitePro/ClearQuest Integration Help RATLC00059147 Move task information from Getting Started with AnalystStudio to RequisitePro/ClearQuest Help.
RequisitePro Help RATLC00059148 Move ClearQuest integration task information from RequisitePro Help to RequisitePro/ClearQuest Help. Replace with link to cqi.hlp Help file.
RequisitePro/XDE Integration RATLC00242905 XDE/RequisitePro Integration - nonblank password in RequisitePro prohibits viewing/creating documents from XDE.
RequisitePro RATLC00058650 Rational Administrator menu item is disabled.
RequisitePro RATLC00059369 Unable to filter queries in views with a German operating system, which is using German Regional Settings.

Defects fixed in Version 2003.06.01

Component

ID

Description

Integrated Use Case Management RATLC00059125 Using the Integrated Use Case Management integration with Rational Rose caused error messages when closing Rose.
Rational RequisitePro-XDE integration RATLC00059126 Using the Rational RequisitePro-XDE integration caused JVM error messages when closing XDE.
Export RATLC00058581/RATLC00059127 URL attributes for requirements did not appear as links when Attribute Matrix data was exported to Microsoft Word.
Security RATLC00059115/RATLC00059128

Passwords beginning with a space caused type mismatch error messages when new users logged into RequisitePro for the first time.

Files changed by Version 2003.06.13

Due to the number of new capabilities in this RequisitePro service release, it contains an extensive number of new (93) and changed files. For the list of new and changed files in this service release, please contact Customer Support.

Files changed by Version 2003.06.12

The following files have been revised in this service release of RequisitePro:

Extensive changes to RequisiteWeb files can be summarized as follows:

Files changed by Version 2003.06.01

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

The IBM software support Internet site provides you with self-help resources and electronic problem submission. The IBM Software Support homepage can be found at www.ibm.com/software/support.

Voice Support is available to all current contract holders via a telephone number in your country (where available). For specific country phone numbers, please refer to the IBM Software Support Handbook, Appendix B: Contact Information, found at www.ibm.com/software/support.