This file provides the following
information about the Mercury Quality Center 9.0 Requirements Synchronizer for Rational RequisitePro Add-in:
For more information, refer to the Mercury
Quality Center Requirements Synchronizer for Rational RequisitePro Add-in Guide.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
You must
install the Quality Center Requirements Synchronizer on a separate, dedicated
standard desktop machine that is not being used as a
Your
machine must meet the minimum requirements and recommendations for a Rational
Desktop System. For more information, refer to the Rational Software Desktop
Products Installation Guide.
Problems and Limitations
·
Synchronization
of User-Defined Fields:
Only the first 25 requirement user-defined fields are available for
synchronization: RQ_USER_01 to RQ_USER_25.
·
RequisitePro 2002 Refresh
during the Synchronization Process:
If a RequisitePro project is open during the synchronization process, errors
may be generated. Workaround: Ensure
that you close the RequisitePro project before starting the synchronization
process. If this does not solve the problem, contact Mercury Customer Support.
·
Upgrading from a Previous Version
of the Synchronizer: If you built
synchronization tasks using the TestDirector Synchronizer, you must upgrade
them to work with the Quality Center Synchronizer. For more information,
contact Mercury Customer Support.
·
Upgrading from a Previous Version
of TestDirector or
o
If
you worked with a previous version of the Synchronizer with TestDirector, and
in upgrading from TestDirector to
o
For
example, your TestDirector Server URL may have been “http://myserver/tdbin”,
and after upgrading to
o
To
change the details in your tasks, go to the location of your existing tasks (by
default, in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Mercury Interactive\TDReqSync\Tasks)
and open each task in Notepad. Find the
line with TDServer: “http://myserver/tdbin”, and change the Server URL to the
new Server URL. To change the Domain
name or Project name, find the lines with TD_Domain:<domain
name> (for the Domain) and TD_Database:<project name> (for the
Project) and set their values to the new values. Save the task file.
·
Running the Synchronizer as a
Service: Before
starting the Synchronizer as a service, you must configure the service to use
an appropriate account. For more information, refer to the Mercury Quality Center Requirements Synchronizer for Rational
RequisitePro Add-in Guide.
·
Synchronizing a Large Number of
Requirements: The
Synchronizer might report
·
Performance Limitations: Running a Full Scan on a large project can take a long time,
especially when there are many
·
RequisitePro Limitations: In
·
Mapping Multiple Value List Fields: You can not map a
o
Map a
o
Map a RequisitePro multiple value list field to a
·
Restoring
Workaround: Restore the original password for the user in Site
Administration.
·
Other Known Issues: For other known issues with the Synchronizer, refer to the Mercury Quality Center Requirements
Synchronizer for Rational RequisitePro Add-in Guide (the “Working with the
Synchronizer” section of chapter 2).
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