Glossary

Here is a summary of acronyms and terms used in relation to the OSLC Connect for Windchill.

OSLC Connect for Windchill

ALM

Application Lifecycle Management.

EWM

IBM Engineering Workflow Management.

ELM

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management.

ETM

IBM Engineering Test Management.

DNG

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next.

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name or Absolute domain name is the name which describes the exact location, without ambiguity, of a network resource.

GC

IBM Global Configuration Management.

JRS

IBM Jazz Reporting Service.

LQE

IBM Lifecycle Query Engine.

OASIS

OASIS is a nonprofit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.

OAuth

The authentication protocol used by Jazz ELM to authenticate users.

OSLC

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration develops standards that make it easy and practical for software lifecycle tools to share data with one another.

PLM

Product Lifecycle Management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products.

RDF

The Resource Description Framework is a metadata data model.

REST

Representational State Transfer is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating web services.

RM

Requirements Management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders.

TRS

The OSLCTracked Resource Set protocol allows a server to expose a set of resources.

PTC Windchill Terminology

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