Provides service visibility and governance from creation to retirement of SOA services.
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition governs service lifecycle from creation to consumption
Provide Enterprise Architects, Operations Managers and Software Developers with customizable, scalable & automated service visibility and governance solutions enabling them to manage, trust and secure services and documents in an SOA.
- Help break organizational silos by providing seamless view of comprehensive service information and documents to all interested parties.
- Mitigate business risk by providing proven, high-quality, and resilient services as building blocks for mission-critical business applications and processes.
- Speed time-to-market, increase resource utilization and improve collaboration by governing the lifecycle of services from creation to consumption helping promote reuse across the organization.
- Address security needs and control access to applications, services and documents based on customizable roles and rights.
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Features and benefits
IBM provides combined, integrated design-time and run-time SOA repositories to govern the service lifecycle from creation to consumption. This capability is powered by IBM Rational Asset Manager that manages information that is useful for developing, re-using and managing all types of reusable assets and IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository that manages information that is useful for the runtime operation, management and development use of services.
| Design Time | Run / Deploy Time |
|---|---|
| Easily locate existing reusable assets | Publish and find your services and related information in one place |
| Create and package assets | Increase visibility of services throughout your organization |
| Fast search using categories, facets, keywords | Expose redundant and inefficient services |
| Custom categorization for assets | - |
| Design Time | Run / Deploy Time |
|---|---|
| Easily approve, review, rate and discuss assets. | Implement decision rights and processes to make changes. |
| Define workflow associated with creating and reviewing assets | Easily approve, promote, introduce and retire services. |
| Implement roles and access controls for assets at development time | Maintain test environment separate from production. |
| Design Time | Run / Deploy Time |
|---|---|
| Ratings, feedback, and statistics help in asset evaluation | Expose multiple versions of the same service |
| RSS Feeds, email and discussion groups notify users of changes to assets | Efficiently manage changes to service metadata and notify stakeholders. |
| Traceability to related assets and service implementation artifacts. | - |
| Design Time | Run / Deploy Time |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive asset level reporting and metrics | Plan and assess the service lifecycle workflow itself |
| Asset Activity and Audit Reporting | Plan and assess the services and business processes managed through the service lifecycle |
| Report on assets at repository level | - |
Integral to SOA

System requirements
Below is a list of the minimum software and hardware required for WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition, Version 6.2.
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | AIX 5L 5.3 with Service Pack 5300-04-01 (32 and 64-bit kernel support) WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (32-bit), with Fix Pack 15 or later Java 1.5 system JVM IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.5, or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.1 (64-bit), or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 (32-bit), with Fix pack 5 or later Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 (64-bit) |
IBM pSeries® system at 375MHz or faster Minimum 2GB physical memory; 3GB recommended Minimum 300MB available disk space for installation; the installer also requires approximately 600MB of space in the /tmp directory during installation |
| Linux on Intel | Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 update 2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.0 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0. For related information, see technotes #1251265 and #1251362 WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (32-bit), with Fix Pack 15 or later Java 1.5 system JVM IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.5, or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.1 (32-bit or 64-bit), or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 (32-bit), with Fix pack 5 or later Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit) (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) only). |
Intel® Pentium (or equivalent) processor at 1GHz or faster (32-bit kernel support only) Minimum 2GB physical memory; 3GB recommended Minimum 300MB available disk space for installation; the installer also requires approximately 600MB of space in the /tmp directory during installation |
| Windows 2003 | Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Standard with SP1 and Enterprise Edition with SP1 WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (32-bit), with Fix Pack 15 Java 1.5 system JVM IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.5, or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V9.1 (32-bit), or IBM DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 (32-bit), with Fix pack 5 or later Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 (32-bit) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
Minimum 2GB physical memory; 3GB recommended Minimum 300MB available disk space for installation; the installer also requires approximately 600MB of space in your designated temporary directory e.g.c:\documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Temp |
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