Known Limitations

Windchill PDMLink 11.1 M020 to 11.2.0.x

This version of Windchill prevents the OSLC Connect logs to be displayed in the log files.

This is a known bug of Windchill corrected in the version 11.2.1.0. Please apply the workaround procedure described in the PTC support article CS311767.

ELM applications

ELM Applications won't work with OSLC Connect for Windchill if their web application server is not configured following the IBM Support document 1288438

Recent versions of browsers such as Chrome and Firefox enforce by default a strict Same-Site cookie policy to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

This prevents OSLC interactions between friends from different domains to perform as expected. As such, OAuth interactions will fail, and previews and delegated dialogs will not display.

Doors Next

• IBM Doors Next (RM) 6.0.6 and 6.0.6.1 have a bug when displaying links. There is no warning when the user is logged out of Windchill, and the links to Windchill parts are not displayed. The customer of IBM Doors Next (RM) 6.0.6 and 6.0.6.1 can ask their support an IFix for this bug. IBM Doors Next (RM) 7.0.0 will add a warning to the user with an hyperlink that allows login to Windchill and then the display of links.
  Note: if Global Configuration is enabled, the bug persists with IBM Doors Next (RM) 7.0.0 and the links will not be displayed until connected to Windchill, without any warning.
• IBM Doors Next (RM) 6.0.6 is not compatible with Global Configuration for the Architecture Management domain. More precisely, links to Windchill Parts do not include a configuration context.
• In all versions of IBM Doors Next (RM), when Global Configuration is enabled, an authentication problem may occur at the first connection to Windchill. The OSLC Connect for Windchill APIs will require access to the GCM application, which will be granted by IBM Doors Next (RM), even though it will display a seemingly unrelated error message and leave an authentication window open. When this happens, close the authentication window and refresh the page. To fix this behavior, you may ask IBM for a resolution of this defect.
• When asked to display a preview of a IBM Doors Next (RM) artifact in a Global Configuration context, RM may take a very long time to respond. As a result, the preview may seem unresponsive or broken.

Rational Quality Manager

• IBM Rational Quality Manager (QM) artifacts cannot be linked to Windchill Parts in all versions before 7.0.0.
• In IBM Rational Quality Manager (QM) 7.0.0, when Global Configuration is enabled, an authentication problem may occur at the first connection to Windchill. The OSLC Connect for Windchill APIs will require access to the GCM application, which will be granted by IBM Rational Quality Manager (QM), even though it will display a seemingly unrelated error message and leave an authentication window open. When this happens, close the authentication window and refresh the page. To fix this behavior, you may ask IBM for a resolution of this defect.

Windchill datatypes

Object References are not yet supported and are ignored in OSLC creation factories and creation dialogs. If you need to set an Object Reference, you have to edit the artifact using the native Windchill capabilities.