There are many reasons why a test may not be used for diagnosis, lets begin by looking at a diagnostic session.   A diagnostic session has three basic phases: the acceptance phase, the diagnosis phase and the operation check phase.  Each phase has a set of viable tests that may be used during the session.  These phases may sound familiar because a test’s type may be: test, symptom, operational check and acceptance test.  Depending on the test’s type, it may or may not be used in the diagnostic session.   A test will be added to a set if the test’s type for that particular set is enabled.  For example if a test is marked as a Operational Check test it will be added to the set of viable tests used during the operational check phase.

Tests that are marked as symptoms appear in the beginning of a diagnostic session.  Tests marked only as “symptom” will not be used in any of the phases.

Notes:

Prior to TEAMS-Designer 11.5, tests that were marked other than type “Test” were also included in the diagnostic phases.  This behavior has been changed as described above.  To retain a model’s diagnostic tree, ensure all of the tests are of type “Test” as well.

Before proceeding you will need to know the following information to configure the ODBC data source, contact your IT administrator for assistance.

Prerequisites:

• TCP/IP address of the database server
• database user account and password
• database port if non-default was set
• name of the database (default: rds)

To add a MSSQL ODBC data source:

1. First locate the ODBC Administrator utility.
2. For 32-bit systems its located in: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC).
3. For 64-bit systems, if you are running the 64-bit version of TEAMS-Designer the utility is located in: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC).  If you are running the 32-bit version of TEAMS-Designer the utility is located in: <Windows Dir>\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.
4. Open the utility and select the System DSN tab on the top.
5. Click on Add.
6. A dialog will appear prompting you to enter the name, description and server name.  Enter the name of the data source, this is an arbitrary field.  This field is required by TEAMS-Designer to connect to TEAMS-RDS.
7. Click on the drop-down list box for the server, a list of database servers should appear. Select the database server which hosts the TEAMS-RDS database.  If the list is empty, enter the TCP/IP name of the server in the field.  If you are connecting to a SQL Express version of MSSQL, you will need to append “\SQLEXPRESS” to the server name field.
8. Click Next to proceed.
9. The dialog will prompt you for a login information.  Select “With SQL Server authentication using a login ID and password entered by the user.” as the authentication method.
10. Ensure the box for “Connect to SQL Server to obtain default settings for the additional configuration options.” is selected.
11. Enter the database login id and password.  Note for TEAMS-IDE, the default login id and password are: rds \ Qualtech135 .
12. Click Next twice.
13. Click on Finish, a dialog will appear with a summary of the configuration settings.  To test the data source, click on Test Data Source.  A window will appear displaying the results of the tests.  If the test is not successfully, click on OK to dismiss the window and click on Cancel to review the configuration settings of the data source.

Note:

• By default TEAMS-IDE installs SQL Server 2008 Express on the machine.
• The name of the data source is arbitrary but you should create a naming convention that is ready to remember if you plan on creating multiple ODBC data sources.
• You can add several ODBC data sources, this will allow you to export to several TEAMS-RDS databases from TEAMS-Designer.

Before proceeding you will need to know the following information to configure the ODBC data source, contact your IT administrator for assistance.

Prerequisites:

• MySQL ODBC driver installed
• TCP/IP address of the database server
• database user account and password
• database port if non-default was set
• name of the database (default: rds)

Before continuing, make sure you have the MySQL ODBC driver installed in your computer.  If not, click here and install the appropriate driver for your operating system.  For example, if are running 64-bit version of TEAMS-Designer download and install mysql-connector-odbc-5.x.x-winx64.msi.  If you are running 32-bit version of TEAMS-Designer download and install mysql-connector-odbc-5.x.x-win32.msi.

To add a MySQL ODBC data source:

1. First locate the ODBC Administrator utility.
2. For 32-bit systems its located in: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC).
3. For 64-bit systems, if you are running the 64-bit version of TEAMS-Designer the utility is located in: Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC).  If you are running the 32-bit version of TEAMS-Designer the utility is located in: <Windows Dir>\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.
4. Open the utility and select the System DSN tab on the top.
5. Click on Add.
6. Select the “MySQL ODBC X.x Driver” from the list and click on Finish.
7. Enter the name of the data source, the IP address of the database server, the user name and the password.
8. If the information above is correct, the database drop-down list will display the database(s) on the server when selected.
9. Select the TEAMS-RDS database from the list, by default it’s usually “rds”.
10. Click on Test to verify the connection is configured correctly.  If you encounter an issue, verify the parameters are correct.
11. Click on OK to finish.

Tips:

• The name of the data source is arbitrary but you should create a naming convention that is ready to remember if you plan on creating multiple ODBC data sources.
• You can add several ODBC data sources, this will allow you to export to several TEAMS-RDS databases from TEAMS-Designer.

Function-mappings consists of a single destination function and one or more source functions.  A function-mapping will be applied if any of the source functions defined in a function-mapping reach any of the input ports of a failure mode and are not being blocked.    For example, if a function-mapping defines three source functions then any of the three functions will be mapped to the destination function.  The mapped function will be propagated to all the output ports of the failure mode.

Tips:

• Before the function-mappings are computed, TEAMS-Designer will first apply the function blockers.  This will prevent any of the blocked functions from being processed by the function mappers.
• A function may be mapped to multiple destination functions by including it in multiple function-mappings.

When computing function propagation, blockers are applied first and then function mappings are applied.  For example, if function-1 is blocked and is also defined in a function mapper as a source function, TEAMS-Designer will not apply the function mapper to the already blocked function.

To remove a function mapper in a module:

1. Open the module’s properties panel.
2. Go to the Functions property page and click on Mapped functions button.
3. Select the destination function of the function mapper to be deleted.
4. Next un-select all the source functions defined for the function mapper.
5. Click on OK to finish.

Note: Only one function mapper may be removed at a time.

Yes it is possible to add your own hierachy labels.  Just open the module’s properties panel and enter the new hierarchy label in the combo-box.  Click Ok to apply the changes.  The hierachy label will be added to the bottom of the list next time the drop-down list is displayed.

Hint: To add the new hierarchy label to multiple modules, open the module batch editor and apply it to all the applicable modules.

To generate a dependency matrix report, simply go to Tools -> Options…, enable the Generate D-Matrix Spreadsheet Report option then go to Analysis -> Testability Analysis… or Analysis -> Serviceability Analysis…, depending on your license.

TEAMS-Designer will generate a CSV and Microsoft Excel file containing the dependency matrix.  The files are located in the REPORTS sub-folder under the model’s folder.  The REPORTS folder contains a list of time-stamp folders for each analysis completed.  TEAMS-Designer creates a file formatted using the following convention <model_name>_D-Matrix.xls in each folder.

If the Mapped functions button is not visible, go to Tools -> Options… and enable Use Mapping and Blocking Functions option.  If the button is greyed out, it means that the module is not a failure mode (lowest-level module).  Only failure modes may have function mappers and blockers defined.

The best way to send a model to someone is to export it as a xml file.  Open the model and click on File -> Export Model as XML File.  The model will be saved as a compressed archieve using the tmsx extension.  An alternative approach is to compress the model’s folder using a compression utility.  Just remember to un-compress before opening with TEAMS-Designer.

Notes:

• When saving a model to a xml file, do not rename the file or else TEAMS-Designer will not be able to open it.