Dimensions CM Request Plugin Configuration Details

The Dimensions CM Request plugin provides functionality for Serena Dimensions CM where deployment units are requests.

This plugin should be used if you use requests in Dimensions CM to promote, demote, and deploy your item revisions. If you use release baselines for this purpose, you should use the default plugin. See Dimensions CM Default Plugin Configuration Details.

The Dimensions CM Deployment Unit provider in this plugin is used when adding Dimensions CM requests as deployment units.
The Dimensions CM Execution provider is used when creating deployment tasks or task templates. You can choose to deploy, promote, or demote Dimensions CM requests through the Dimensions CM GSL stages.

Limitations

This plugin does not provide any functionality for baselines.
This plugin does not provide functionality for actioning requests through Dimensions CM lifecycle states.
This plugin does not provide functionality for adding Dimensions CM requests as Release Control requests under the release package Requests tab.

Example Dimensions CM Request Plugin Configuration

The fields for an example Dimensions CM Request plugin configuration are described in the following table.

Field	Description	Example Values
Name	A unique name for the plugin configuration	Dimensions CM 12.2
Description	A description of the plugin configuration that distinguishes it from other configurations in the list	Sample Dimensions CM 12.2 Configuration
Dimensions CM Web Services	Location of the Dimensions CM Web services	http://<servername>:8080/ dmwebservices2/services/dmwebservices/
Dimensions CM Web UI	Location of the Dimensions CM Web client	http://<servername>:8080/dimensions/
DB Name	The name of the Dimensions CM database	cm_typical
DB Connection	The Dimensions CM database connection string	dim12
Server	The server where the Dimensions CM database is located	myserver
Use Single Sign-On (SSO)	Enable single sign-on to allow the provider service to log in to the Dimensions CM system using the authentication token of the user. Note that if you are logging into a separate system that doesn't share the same SSO server, you will receive the following message "An error occurred while getting collection details" when trying to find something on the other system. If you set this to true, ensure that SSO is enabled for Dimensions CM as documented in "Configuring a Dimensions CM Server for SSO" in Serena Dimensions CM System Administration Guide.	false
User Name	If single sign-on is not enabled for this server, use this user name to log in to this system.	dmsys
Password	If single sign-on is not enabled for this server, use this password to log in to this system.	dmsys
Server Time Zone Name	This field is used to set the time zone used in the display of date/time fields in Release Control. If the time zone of the Release Control server is different than that of the Dimensions CM server, enter the time zone of the Dimensions CM server in this field. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones or similar sites for information on Java time zone entries. If this field is blank, the time zone of the Release Control server is used to calculate the time.
Execution Properties	Used when adding deployment tasks or task templates
Execution - Provider Name	A descriptive name of the execution provider	CM 12.2 Execution
Execution - Provider Description	Description of the provider, which appears as a tooltip in Edit Deployment Tasks when users are adding a deployment task	Execution provider for Dimensions CM 12.2
Execution - Product Instance Name	Enter the `DM_ALF_PRODUCT_INSTANCE` value that is in the Dimensions CM configuration file. See Configuring Dimensions CM ALF Settings.	DimensionsUnderOrchestratedApps
Deployment Unit Properties	Used when adding deployment units
Deploy Unit - Provider Name	A descriptive name of the deployment unit provider	CM 12.2 Request Deployment Unit
Deploy Unit - Provider Description	Description of the provider, which appears as a tooltip in Edit Deployment Units when users are adding a deployment unit	Request Deployment Unit provider for Dimensions CM 12.2
Request - Status Filters	A comma-separated list of statuses to filter the list of requests from which to select; if a request is not in one of the statuses listed, it will not appear in the list of requests available to add to a release package	ASSIGNED, RAISED, UNDER WORK, IN TEST, CLOSED, REJECTED
Request - Custom Attributes	Request query custom attributes separated by commas. The attribute format must include a name and data type separated by a colon. For example: name1:Text, datetime1:DateTime	DATE_TEST_PASSED:DateTime, COMPLETION_DATE:DateTime, ACTUAL_COMP_DATE:DateTime, Severity:Text, ACTUAL_DEV_EFFORT:Number, EST_DEV_EFFORT:Number, DETAILS_OF_THE_SOLUTION:Text, DEFER_REASON:Text, DATE_OF_DEPLOYMENT:DateTime, RAISED_BY:Text
Request - Result Limit	Limits the results to the given number	300
Request - Dimensions CM Request URL	The URL that points to the request, relative to the Web UI URL.	?jsp=api&command= opencd&object_id=%REQUEST_ID %&DB_CONN=%DB_CONNECTION %&DB_NAME=%DB_NAME%
Provider Types
Execution	Provides functionality for executing deployment tasks	Enabled
Deployment Unit	Provides functionality for linking deployment units	Enabled
Request	Provides functionality for associating requests	Not Supported
Configuration Information
Configuration ID	Unique identifier of this configuration within the database instance. Read only.
Configuration UUID	Unique global identifier of this configuration. Read only.