Configuring Risk Codes


Overview

Tasks

Included with

Tivoli Change Management administration

Overview

What are risk codes?

In Tivoli Change Management, risk codes indicate the degree of danger or uncertainty that is involved in a change or model. When creating a change or model, users can select a risk code from the list you maintain. You can add to, modify, delete from, or print the list of risk codes.

Tasks

Adding a risk code

You can add a risk code to those Tivoli Change Management provides.

To add a risk code:

  1. From the Configuration menu, choose Configure Change Management.
    Result: The List Maintenance dialog box appears.
  2. From the List Maintenance dialog box, choose the Risk tab.
    Result: The Risk tab appears.
  3. In the box below the Code column, type a unique risk code name.
  4. In the box below the Description column, type a description of the code.
  5. Choose Add.
    Result: The risk code is added to the table.
  6. Repeat the previous steps to add any other risk codes.
  7. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Close.
    • Choose another tab of the List Maintenance dialog box to continue configuring Tivoli Change Management.

Modifying a risk code

You can modify a risk code description, but not the actual name of the code.
Note: If you want to change the name of a risk code, you can delete the risk code and add it with the new name.

To modify a risk code description:

  1. From the Configuration menu, choose Configure Change Management.
    Result: The List Maintenance dialog box appears.
  2. From the List Maintenance dialog box, choose the Risk tab.
    Result: The Risk tab appears.
  3. Under Risks, select the risk code to modify.
    Result: The risk code and its description appear in the boxes below the table.
  4. In the box below the Description column, type the new description.
  5. Choose Replace.
    Result: The selected risk code description is replaced with the new description.
  6. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Close.
    • Choose another tab of the List Maintenance dialog box to continue configuring Tivoli Change Management.

Deleting a risk code

You can delete a risk code only if it has never been assigned to a change or model.

To delete a risk code:

  1. From the Configuration menu, choose Configure Change Management.
    Result: The List Maintenance dialog box appears.
  2. From the List Maintenance dialog box, choose the Risk tab.
    Result: The Risk tab appears.
  3. Under Risk, select the risk code to delete.
  4. Choose Delete to delete the selected code.
    Note: Tivoli Change Management does not ask you to confirm the deletion.
  5. Do one of the following:
    • Choose Close.
    • Choose another tab of the List Maintenance dialog box to continue configuring Tivoli Change Management.
Printing risk codes You can print a list of Tivoli Change Management risk codes in use at your organization.

To print a list of risk codes:

  1. From the Configuration menu, choose Configure Change Management.
    Result: The List Maintenance dialog box appears.
  2. From the List Maintenance dialog box, choose the Risk tab.
    The Risk tab appears.
  3. Choose Print.
    Result: The current list of risk codes prints.