Configuring LDX with Windchill's Change Management data source

When Configuration Management is enabled in a IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management project, Collaboration back links are not stored along with the artifact itself, they are managed by IBM Link Index Provider (LDX) and it must be installed/configured in order to see back links. If LDX is not installed, there is no way to get back links displayed, try to install it before continue.

Having LDX installed:

  1. Follow the steps defined in this Jazz Procedure to add Windchill's Change Management data source in LDX[1], [2] using following data:
    Field Value Required in Jazz Procedure Step
    Root Services URL OSLC Connect for Windchill's root services URL (for more details please refer to Configuring OSLC Connect) 3
    Data Source URL http[s]://<host_name>:<port>[/Windchill]/oslc-connect/cm/trs 3
    Label TRS 2.0 for OSLC Connect for Windchill CM Resources 4
    OAuth Consumer Key an existing Windchill consumer key (ask it to Windchill's server administrator) 7
    OAuth Consumer Secret an existing Windchill consumer secret (ask it to Windchill's server administrator) 7
    2. Warning: Do NOT add the Windchill Architecture Management data source in LDX. Jazz applications discover AM links with OSLC queries and do not rely on LDX. Adding the Windchill AM data source would only consume resources to index the links for no purpose, on both the Windchill and the LDX systems.
  2. Repeat the same steps to register Windchill's Process data source using following data:
    Field Value Required in Jazz Procedure Step
    Root Services URL OSLC Connect for Windchill's root services URL (for more details please refer to Configuring OSLC Connect) 3
    Data Source URL http[s]://<host_name>:<port>[/Windchill]/oslc-connect/process/trs 3
    Label TRS 2.0 for OSLC Connect for Windchill Process Resources 4
    OAuth Consumer Key an existing Windchill consumer key (ask it to Windchill's server administrator) 7
    OAuth Consumer Secret an existing Windchill consumer secret (ask it to Windchill's server administrator) 7

If everything went well, you will see a new data source registered and updated in LDX Data Sources page.

[1] This procedure is actually for registering a data source in LQE. LQE is another ELM application but shares the same procedure to register a data source and it seems IBM haven't published specific information for LDX. [2] Giving the above, you need to change /lqe for /ldx in the URL provided in the first step in order to access the right page to configure the new data source, in other words: http://<host_name>:<port>/ldx/web/admin/data-sources.