Overview of the new features of IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.0.3 and Design Manager 4.0.3

Ease of use, performance improvement and engineering lifecycle workflow improvements for systems engineering and software development

New Feature Collection

IBM Rational Rhapsody Version 8.0.3 enables system engineers and software engineers to capture and validate their designs and work in an agile manner.

The operating language enables you to specify functionality and validate behavior, and to find problems more easily by automatic consistency checking, making the simulation easier.

Rhapsody's 64-bit version improves performance, accelerates continuous integration for agile development, and supports integration with 64-bit Rational team concert.

The new step-by-step Guide Me feature helps you start applying Rhapsody more quickly to implement security-focused development and code reverse engineering.

The improvement of the function of the Rhapsody table improves the productivity.

Enhanced, dynamic ToolTips provide a quick and efficient overview of model element features, descriptions, and relationships, as well as a shortcut to navigation design.

Many applicability and new design features improve ease of use and add the options available.

The rational Rhapsody design Manager Version 4.0.3 improves the performance of proactive management designs by improving workflows through IBM rational DOORS and rational DOORS Next Generation, Enhanced collaboration across teams, providing broader language support for integration with other applications.

The design manager SDK enables third-party or in-house-built tools to be integrated with designing manager, enabling access through OSLC (open Services for lifecycle collaboration, lifecycle Collaboration Open service) and other The artifact shares and links its design information.

DOORS and DOORS Next Generation are connected to OSLC and can now display suspicious links highlighting the design areas that need attention because they may be affected by a single requirement change. In addition, it also shows the links between DOORS requirements to increase your productivity.

Rhapsody Design Manager Improvements

Extended lifecycle workflow capabilities for active management design

With Rhapsody design manager, System engineers are able to work in a more natural way, using Active Managed Mode to manage their designs directly in a Jazz based repository. This pattern helps you control design artifacts, communicate changes, and collaborate on the design of storage in the repository. In this release, workflows have been refined more flexibly, improving the performance of saving, logging on, and caching charts.

Improved navigation through a WEB client

Rhapsody Design Manager supports an expanded team that uses a Web browser to easily access designing information. They can perform audits, comment designs, or collaborate without installing Rhapsody clients. Starting with the Rhapsody design Manager 4.0.3, you can use the Web client to navigate through the designs using hyperlinks on Rhapsody charts and elements in each range.

Figure 1. Navigating a chart by using hyperlinks

Deliver workspaces through proactive management design

For parallel development, you can deliver the workspace directly from the Rhapsody client. Figure 2 shows the Deliver Outgoing Changes dialog box window. Changes in child workspaces, from a parent workspace and based on a snapshot, can be merged into the parent workspace using the Diffmerge feature. Conflict-free changes can be handled automatically. When a conflict occurs, you are prompted to select the changes that you want to use.

Figure 2. Automatically merge more or select the workspace to use

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