Analyzing and validating TRS feeds

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You can view the state of skipped resources for work item data source in the Lifecycle Query Engine (LQE) in the web client of IBM® Engineering Workflow Management.

Before you begin

To view the state of skipped resources for work item data source in Engineering Workflow Management (EWM), you must first set the Reports Diagnostics Rest Service server property:
  1. Log in to the server administration page of your web client, for example: https://<host-name>:<port number>/ccm/admin.
  2. Click Advanced Properties, locate com.ibm.team.rtc.common.internal.service.rest.reports.ReportsDiagnosticsRestService, and click Edit.
  3. In the Properties section, in the URL of the LQE Application field, type the URL for the LQE that is registered with your Jazz Team Server, for example: https://<host-name>:<port number>/lqe.
    Advanced server properties
    Note: If the LQE application is installed on a different server than the CCM server, you must also establish a friend relationship between the two servers. For details, see Establishing friend relationships.
  4. Click Preview and then click Save.

About this task

You can view the state of skipped resources for change set link, change set, and tracking and planning in the web client. The information helps you identify the causes of problems and suggests how to fix them. If the cause of a skipped resource is that a work item is deleted, the message displays so. New causes for skipped resources, not seen previously, are listed under Unknown Errors.

To view the state of skipped resources in LQE on the TRS Feed Diagnostics page:

Procedure

  1. Log in to the server administration page of your web client, for example: https://<host-name>:<port number>/ccm/admin.
  2. In the top navigation pane, click TRS Feed Diagnostics.
    Reports diganostics button
  3. In the left pane, select the TRS Feed that you want to view.
    You can select:
    • Change Set Link Resources
    • Change Set Resources
    • Process Resources
    • Tracking and Planning Resources (TRS 2.0)

    Report diagnostics data options
  4. Navigate to the Skipped Resources tab. Click Check for skipped resources. Resource, State, and Error Message are displayed. By default, the state is Skipped.
    Report diagnostics page
    Note:

    Skipped resources is not applicable for Process Resources.

  5. To ignore a skipped resource, hover over the area before the resource name, click the arrow button beside the check box and select Ignore.
    Ignore option

    Provide the reason to ignore the resource. Click OK.
    Reason to ignore

    In the state column, the resource appears as Ignored with an information icon next to it. Hover over the information icon to view the reason. Ignored resources are not displayed as issues, on validation.

    If a resource is ignored and you need to change the state back to skipped, hover over the area before the resource name, click the arrow button beside the check box and select Unignore.

    By default, the table displays all the resources. To apply the filter, click the down arrow and select Show Skipped to view only the skipped resources. Select Show Ignored to view only the ignored resources.
    Filter_show ignored
    You can also validate the data sources. In the top navigation pane, click TRS Feed Diagnostics and select the TRS feed, for example, Process Resources. To validate the TRS feed against the data in the repository, click Validate. By default, Resolve problems is checked. Click Validate now.
    Validate now

    For more information about report validation, see Validating TRS feeds and the LQE index.