A repository is a central location to store data. You must
create a connection from Visual Studio to a repository in Jazz™ to work with the project artifacts. Your Jazz Team Server administrator must
provide you with the access privilege to the repository.
Before you begin
This topic assumes that your Jazz Team
Server administrator has created a repository and a project area.
To
connect to a repository, you need the following information:
- The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of an existing repository.
Typically, this is in the form of https://<hostname.example.com>:<port>/ccm.
The repository is created by a Jazz Team
Server administrator. The repository must be available on a local
or a network server.
- A user ID and password for the repository. Jazz Team Server administrators create team
member credentials on the Web server and in team areas. Your administrator
can configure the repository for user authentication in an LDAP directory.
To use Smart Card authentication, you must enable the
IBM Common Access Card (CAC) provider within Java by editing the install-directory/3rd
Party/jre/lib/security/java.security file.
Replace this section:
security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2
security.provider.2=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider
security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath
security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL
security.provider.6=com.ibm.xml.crypto.IBMXMLCryptoProvider
security.provider.7=com.ibm.xml.enc.IBMXMLEncProvider
security.provider.8=org.apache.harmony.security.provider.PolicyProvider
security.provider.9=com.ibm.security.jgss.mech.spnego.IBMSPNEGO
with
this section:
security.provider.1=com.ibm.security.capi.IBMCAC
security.provider.2=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2
security.provider.3=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider
security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath
security.provider.6=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL
security.provider.7=com.ibm.xml.crypto.IBMXMLCryptoProvider
security.provider.8=com.ibm.xml.enc.IBMXMLEncProvider
security.provider.9=org.apache.harmony.security.provider.PolicyProvider
security.provider.10=com.ibm.security.jgss.mech.spnego.IBMSPNEGO
After
creating a repository connection, you can connect to that repository.
Procedure
- In Microsoft Visual
Studio, click .
- In the Team Artifacts tool window,
right-click Repository Connections and click .
- In New Repository Connection window,
type or paste a URL. For example, https://hostname.example.com:9443/ccm. The Name defaults to the server
host name. You can modify the name.
- Type the user name and password that your Jazz Team Server administrator provided for
you.
- Optional: To authenticate
using Kerberos/SPNEGO, complete the following steps:
- In the Authentication Type field,
select Kerberos/SPNEGO. If the client is configured
with krb5.ini or krb5.conf in
a default location, click Finish. Otherwise,
set additional configuration options.
- To specify a Kerberos configuration file, expand Additional
configuration options. In the Kerberos configuration
file field, browse to the location of the file. The file
can have any name.
- To specify a Kerberos realm name, host, and (optional)
key distribution center port, complete the appropriate configuration
fields.
- Click Finish.
Note: The Kerberos realm, Key distribution center, and Kerberos
configuration file properties map to the
java.security.krb5.realm,
java.security.krb5.kdc,
and
java.security.krb5.conf system properties,
respectively. For more information, see
Jazz client configuration. The configuration option
properties are global for your client, so if you have multiple repository
connections, these properties are automatically shared. Changing the
properties in one connection automatically changes them in any other
Kerberos/SPNEGO connection. To apply a change to a configuration option
that is already set, restart the client.
- Optional: To log in using Windows credentials
that are the same as the credentials that you use to access the CCM
application, in the authentication field select Integrated
Windows Authentication.
Note: You must be
logged in to a workstation and authenticated by domain. You can use
this authentication method instead of Kerberos/SPNEGO authentication
if the Windows registry on a client machine does not have the required
AllowTGTSessionKey=1 key.
For more information about the
AllowTGTSessionKey, see
Providing a session key to the IBM JRE to enable Kerberos/SPNEGO
SSO in CLM.
- Click OK. The repository
connection is displayed in the Repository Connections folder
of the Team Artifacts tool window.
- To connect to the repository, right-click the repository
connection and click Logon. You
will be logged in automatically, if you selected Remember
my password, while creating a repository connection. Otherwise,
a dialog box is displayed prompting you to enter password. Type the
password and click OK.
