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CE Connector for IoT The IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) development tools and methods combined with the IBM Watson IoT Platform and IBM IoT Connection Service help development teams to design and implement complex, reliable, and secure IoT solutions. The CE Connector for IoT is now available in Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager and it supports scalable development of IBM Watson IoT Platform and IoT Connection Service solutions. IoT solutions have many components that are typically hosted on multiple runtime environments and developed by multiple teams. Coordinating across these teams while designing, building, and evolving an enterprise solution is especially challenging. In this release of Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, the connector allows teams to extend their development practices by including the teams who build IoT solution components with IBM Watson IoT Platform or IoT Connection Service. With the connector you can work with views of your IoT solution, including IoT Platform and IoT Connection Service devices. You can link these IoT Platform or IoT Connection Service artifacts to any other artifact in the Continuous Engineering solution, such as requirements, work items, or test cases. You can also use Rational Engineering Lifecycle Management for traceability and impact analysis of potential changes to your IoT solutions. The connector provides an OSLC server that exposes Watson IoT Platform or IoT Connection Service artifacts using standard OSLC capabilities. The IoT Platform or IoT Connection Service artifacts participate in change management, impact analysis, requirements-driven development, requirements-driven testing, and other common development practices.
Image of the IoT solution environment including CE, Watson IoT Platform, and IoT Connection Service artifacts: 
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Create links between containers You now have more flexibility when creating links between containers. In the Show Links To wizard, you can choose existing or new containers to link to. To link to an existing container, select the Existing Container option and the Container ID. However, you can't change the scope, because you set it when you drag the container to the canvas. Image of the wizard:  |
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Export views that contain enumerations for custom artifact elements Earlier, you could export and import enumerations only through the enumeration manager. Now, whenever you export and import views, they will include custom artifact elements with enumerations. Note that the enumeration values are available in the exported views. |
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Import views with custom artifact elements Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager now supports importing views that have custom artifact elements. The compressed (.ZIP) file can contain one or more views. The first digit of the file name tells you how many views are in the file. When importing views, you can overwrite existing custom artifact elements with contents from the compressed (.ZIP) file. Image of the Import views page:  |
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Sort artifacts by attribute A new Sort tab is now available in the Edit scope and conditions window. Use it to control the sort order of artifacts within a container. Earlier, you could sort the artifacts only by the URL, Title, and Short Name attributes. Now you can sort the artifacts by one or more attributes from the entire list. You can also specify the sort order and sort type for nested sorting. Image of the Sort tab:  |
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Specify a data source when importing views When you import views, you can now select the data source. For example, if you are importing a file that contains many views, it is difficult to remember the data source for each of the views. If you select the Automatic data source, the current configuration is applied to the views. Image of the Import views dialog box:  For any view, you can go to the page properties and check the data source. Image of the page properties showing the data source of a view:  |
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Support link paths in Show links to wizard To see the possible multiple link paths between containers, you can now use the Show links to wizard. Whether you are creating links between existing or new containers, you can see all the possible link paths. You can also specify how many levels of hidden containers to show. Image showing one level of hidden containers:  Image showing two levels of hidden containers:  |
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