Export/Import process templates on different versions does not preserve permission structure for user roles.

There is a related workitem from foundation as the manage of process template source is on their side: 494200: Process templates have no any migration routine on upgrade or importing from previous releases. Once they complete this enhancement we may need to adopt the functionality (likely through an extension point). This is an enhancement to match with foundation's.
 

Testing Environment

6.0.6/6.0.6.1 upgraded from 6.0.2

Overview

Upgrading from 6.0.2 to 6.0.6/6.0.6.1 the process template source misses permissions for categories and stream/baselines:

For example, Customer defined two roles - "Test Manager" and "Project Administrator" who can, amongst others, Crate Baselines and Categories.

In the 6.0.2 exported process template:

<project-configuration>

   <permissions>

      <role id="project_administrator">

         <project-operation id="com.ibm.rqm.planning.categorytype.save">

            <action id="create"/>

         </project-operation>

         <project-operation id="com.ibm.rqm.config.mgmt.create.baseline">

            <action id="any"/>

         </project-operation>

      </role>

   </permissions>

After importing to 6.0.6, the permissions are missing.

When exporting the process again (without any changes), same XML process source is received.

When correcting the settings in UI and inspecting the process source (export to zip or open in Eclipse), those are now moved into the Team Area settings:

<team-configuration>

   <permissions>

      <role id="project_administrator">

         <operation id="com.ibm.rqm.config.mgmt.baseline.save">

            <action id="create"/>

         </operation>

         <operation id="com.ibm.rqm.planning.categorytype.save">

            <action id="create"/>

         </operation>

      </role>

When upgrading a 6.0.2 instance to 6.0.6 same problem is observed from the existing process templates.

Categories permissions were moved to process area at: Categories should have instance-specific permissions (130284)

Configuration permissions were changed also at: Granualize stream management permissions. (127650)

This applies the same for process templates existing during the server upgrade or exported templates prior the migration and imported after migration is done. The effect is the same for process templates. We do not migrate any permission in the source.

We only do migration of the permissions on the PROJECT AREA source.